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Ricardo Monteiro-Alves, Rafael Moran, Miguel Á. Toledo and Javier Peraita
This article presents experimental research focusing on the structural failure of the central core of a rockfill dam using sand-bentonite mixtures. It comprised an extensive geotechnical characterization of soil materials and mixtures, including compacti...
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Isaac Akinwumi, Oluwatomisin Soladoye, Victor Ajayi and Promise Epelle
Plastic waste (PW) constitutes a nuisance to our environment despite several efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle it. This study experimentally explores the possibility of storing plastic waste within a cement-stabilised soil that can be used as a road p...
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Jair A. Baldovino, Carlos Millan-Paramo and Manuel Saba
Recently, studies that introduce alternative binders or wastes for created geo-materials that can be mixed with soil to give it greater strength, are of paramount importance. Roof tile residue, for example, has been widely used to create geopolymers in m...
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Ali Koohsari, Roohollah Kalatehjari, Sayfoddin Moosazadeh, Mohsen Hajihassani and Bao Van
Tunnelling is a vital geotechnical engineering feature of underground transportation systems that is potentially hazardous if not properly investigated, studied, planned, and executed. A reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) analysis is on...
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Pramod Kumar and Pijush Samui
The present study focused on the design of geothermal energy piles based on cone penetration test (CPT) data, which was obtained from the Perniö test site in Finland. The geothermal piles are heat-capacity systems that provide both a supply of energy and...
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