It has for a long time been a challenge for the geotechnical profession to determine the true
behaviour of clays based on soil sampling and laboratory testing. The main difficulty has …

For evaluation of slope stability in materials displaying strain-softening behavior, knowledge
concerning the failed state material response is of importance. Here, soft sensitive clay is …

This work presents the results of plane strain tests carried out at the Laboratoire 3SR
Grenoble (France) on undisturbed samples of very sensitive Norwegian soft clay. Discussion …

Many sensitive clay slopes exist that have a factor of safety greater than one based on the
peak strength, and a factor of safety less than one based on the remolded strength …

Assessment of landslides in soft sensitive clays require, in addition to geometrical aspects, a
combined and complete understanding of the engineering properties of the soil materials at …

The present work assesses the structure and evolution of shear zones in sensitive
'quick'clays from the initiation to the well-established state. This assessment is done by …

If no regularisation method is used during finite element modelling of strain-softening (brittle)
materials, results become mesh dependent: manifesting as very thin shear bands whose …

The accurate assessment or prediction of landslides in sensitive clays is not a
straightforward task due to the complexity associated with understanding such material …

The effect of strain softening in geotechnical design of fills in areas with soft sensitive clays is
studied by a large number of finite element analyses. The reduction in undrained shear …

Finite element modelling involving strain-softening materials becomes mesh dependent if
not regularised by a mesh independent length scale. The objective of this paper is to …