The present work was conducted to investigate the geotechnical properties of two meta-peridotites and meta-pyroxenites of an ultramafic complex mainly consisting of ultramafic rocks. For this purpose, microscopic studies were performed to determine the percentage of serpentinization in these rocks. In addition, a number of mechanical and physical tests were performed on collected samples with d...

Iran is an active seismic region. Earthquake damage is commonly controlled by three interacting factors including source and path characteristics, local geological and geotechnical conditions and type of the structures. Obviously, all of this would require analysis and presentation of a large amount of geological, seismological and geotechnical data. In this paper, nonlinear geotechnical seismi...

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The geotechnical engineering properties of soil exhibit varied and uncertain behaviour due to the complex and imprecise physical processes associated with the formation of these materials (Jaksa, 1995). This is in contrast to most other civil engineering materials, such as steel, concrete and timber, which exhibit far greater homogeneity and isotropy. In order to cope with the complexity of geo...

1Assistant Professor, Department of Water Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran E-mail: [email protected], Af. Member of ASCE 2Research assistant, Nanjing hydraulic research institute, Geotechnical Engineering Department, Nanjing, P.R. China E-mail: [email protected] 3Assistant Professor, Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Khorasgan Is...

1 Department of Statistics, Applied Mathematics, and Computation, State University of São Paulo (UNESP) at Rio Claro, 13500-230 Rio Claro, SP, Brazil 2 Civil Engineering Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), 22453-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 3 Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, University of São Paulo (PEF/EPUSP/USP), 05508-900 São Paulo,...

The overall goal is to identify and understand the physical processes that shape and change coastal environments. Emphasis is on the application of remotely sensed signals that can be compared with in situ observations and assimilated within predictive models. In tidal flat environments, the major goals are to detect geotechnical properties (e.g., sediment strength), morphologic features (e.g.,...