This fully updated second edition provides an introduction to geotechnical earthquake
engineering for first-year graduate students in geotechnical or earthquake engineering …

Ballast plays a vital role in transmitting and distributing the train wheel loads to the
underlying track substructure. The load-bearing capacity, safe train speed, and the levels of …

Recently, biopolymers have emerged in soil stabilisation. The efficiency of biopolymers in
ground improvement is mainly dependent on biopolymer types, soil types, biopolymer …

A wide range of geotechnical structures founded in fine-grained soils are subjected to
complex cyclic loading scenarios. The prediction of their behavior has motivated the …

Dynamic responses of the geosynthetic-encased stone column (GESC) supported
embankment under traffic loads have become a hot topic. This study investigates the …

Rail tracks passing through saturated subgrade soil often face a serious deterioration of
bearing capacity and excessive deformation. One major reason is the excessive cyclic pore …

A plasticity model for representing clays and plastic silts, as opposed to purely nonplastic
silts or sand, in geotechnical earthquake engineering applications is presented. The PM4Silt …

Railway ballast comprises unbounded discrete grains that are often used to form a load-
bearing platform for tracks. Ballast degradation as trains pass over the tracks and infiltration …

Much of the world's essential infrastructure is built along congested coastal belts that are
composed of weak and highly compressible soils to significant depths. Soft alluvial and …

The prediction of soil cyclic behaviour is relevant for several geotechnical applications. In
order to obtain accurate predictions of settlements and pore water pressure build-up on …