Present scenario of the engineering practice is indulged in the search of highly developed methods to judge the earth's retaining walls under seismic conditions which are mostly empirical and based on experience rather than the theories. Understanding the nature of earth retaining structures in unstable events caused by natural phenomena is one of the oldest problems in geotechnical engineering...

This paper presents some recent developments in computer simulations and visualization for geotechnical earthquake engineering. In particular, presented are developments centered on soil–foundation–structure (SFS) interactions modeling using the finite element method. The soil–foundation–structure interaction is one of the most challenging problems in earthquake engineering. The computability o...

The long-term goals are 1) to assess the role of small gas bubbles in shallow sandy coastal sediment for sediment geotechnical properties, the transport of solutes across the sediment-water interface and the biogeochemical processes in the sediment surface layer 2) to develop and apply an acoustic technique for the detection and quantification of small gas bubbles in sandy sediment at a high sp...

Gernot Beer, Benjamin Marussig, Jürgen Zechner , Christian Dünser and Thomas-Peter Fries 1 Emeritus professor , TU Graz, Lessingstrasse 25, Graz, Austria and conjoint professor Centre for Geotechnical and Materials Modeling, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia, [email protected] 2 PhD Student, TU Graz , Lessingstrasse 25, Graz, Austria [email protected] 3 Postdoc, TU Graz , Lessi...

A collaborative research programme between University of Bolton and Bradford University is investigating the effect of surplus carpet fibres on the strength as well as other important geotechnical properties of cohesive soils. Initial work concentrates on the manner in which the fibres affect the quick undrained properties of the reinforced soil. Four different surplus carpet fibre types are be...