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Muawia Dafalla and Ahmed M. Al-Mahbashi
The major problematic soils in semi-arid regions include expansive soils and collapsible soils. These two types of soils cause problems and are hazardous for buildings when moisture is introduced following a dry or semi-dry season. In order to assess the...
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Ahmed Elgamal and Nissreen Elfaris
The tunnel boring method (TBM) is a widely used and effective tunneling technology in various rock mass quality circumstances. A ?faulted rock mass? can range from a highly fractured rock mass to a sheared weak rock mass, making the ground conditions cha...
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Sergio Leyva, Noelia Cruz-Pérez, Jesica Rodríguez-Martín and Juan C. Santamarta
Due to their genesis, volcanic rocks present some singularities that make their geotechnical characteristics significantly different from other more common types of massifs, such as sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. The formation mechanisms of volcanic ...
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Cvetan Sinadinovski, Snje?ana Marku?ic, Davor Stanko, Kevin F. McCue and Lazo Pekevski
In this study, we analyzed the near-field seismic records of two moderate sized earthquakes in the Western Balkan region: the September 2016 Skopje earthquake, magnitude ML5.3 and the March 2020 Zagreb earthquake, magnitude ML5.5. Such recordings at clos...
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Chia-Cheng Tsai and Chun-Hung Lin
Seabed surveying is the basis of engineering development in shallow waters. At present, geophysical survey methods mainly utilize sonars for qualitative surveying, which requires the calibration of the results found through in situ drilling and sampling....
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Mohamed B. D. Elsawy, Mohammed F. Alsharekh and Mahmoud Shaban
Soft soils are commonly located in many regions near seas, oceans, and rivers all over the world. These regions are vital and attractive for population and governments development. Soft soil is classified as problematic soil owing to sustaining low shear...
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Pedro Mata, Paula F. Silva and Fernando F. S. Pinho
In a global society, in which geotechnical projects are increasingly designed in a country other than the one where construction takes place, geotechnical risk management must be extended to cover infrastructure works, which are smaller than dams and tun...
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Seyed Ali Mousavi Tayebi, Saeid Moussavi Tayyebi and Manuel Pastor
Due to the growing populations in areas at high risk of natural disasters, hazard and risk assessments of landslides have attracted significant attention from researchers worldwide. In order to assess potential risks and design possible countermeasures, ...
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Glenda Abate, Simone Bramante and Maria Rossella Massimino
Several urban areas in the Mediterranean have already been subjected to seismic microzonation studies aimed at determining the acceleration expected on the ground surface, therefore mitigating the associated seismic risks. These studies have been general...
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Daniel Bassey, Ben Ngene, Isaac Akinwumi, Victor Akpan and Gideon Bamigboye
Across the world, ballasted railway tracks are utilised extensively due to their cost efficiency, ease of drainage, and capacity to withstand cyclic imposed loadings from heavy trains. In spite of these benefits, the ballast is often considered as a flex...
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