This paper presents a study on the permanent lateral deformation and potential flow of ground due to soil liquefaction in the San Jose area of Northern California. Assessment of ground deformation by lateral flow is made through the use of a set of geotechnical Information Technologies, including GIS, LiDAR, and FEM analysis. By using a geotechnical database consisting of approximately 600 bore...

T. Orr, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland The authors have presented an interesting paper concerning a fundamental problem for geotechnical engineers: the bearing capacity of circular foundations on sand. In this paper the authors have included an equation for the factor Na in the bearing capacity equation for circular foundations on the ground surface, which has been determined from the results ...

The advancement of civil engineering plays a major role in determining the nation's development. Generally, geotechnical has great influence as there is building on ground. facts show that are still many problems arise during development process. One supporting factors dealing with these research sector various fields. This aims to determine related Geotechnical Engineering through bibliometric...

Geotechnical data is often produced and managed by several producers in isolation, their own formats standards, which aim to meet the unique needs of specific users. In Federal District Brazil there a large amount geotechnical from academic research, public private sector, but Government does not have adequate information management despite using that constantly. This work presents conceptual m...

Streambank erosion is known to be a major source of sediment in streams and rivers. The Bank Stability and Toe Erosion Model (BSTEM) was developed in order to predict streambank retreat due to both fluvial erosion and geotechnical failure. However, few, if any, model evaluations using long-term streambank retreat data have been performed. The objectives of this research were to (1) monitor long...

It is a famous q uote that “Every structur e is supported on soils or rock, t hose that aren’t, either fly, float, or fall over”. Soils are natural deposits on which humans have no control. Soils at no two sites are likely to be the same. Even, at a particular point at a sit e, different types of soils exist at different depths. Several theories and formulas have been developed since the birth ...

The simulation of structural and geotechnical systems is a critical step in their design and assessment. The purpose of an earthquake simulation is to estimate the performance of the system under seismic excitation or loads that represent the effects of an earthquake. Structural and geotechnical simulation has a long history of development in earthquake engineering. The computation required to ...

Blast-induced seismic wave is very important to theory study of structure damage and stability analysis of corresponding geotechnical engineering; however it is not well solved. Based on measured data of Lafarge quarry, shortcoming of traditional analysis method is pointed out. Wavelet analysis method is presented to describe spectral characteristics and energy distribution of blast-induced sei...

Modern ground-water flow models, geotechnical studies, and science-based land-use planning require knowledge of the distribution of surficial earth materials from land surface to the top of bedrock (e.g., Masterson and others, 1997a,). To be useful, modern geologic maps must portray such information three dimensionally in a way that is consistent with the regional stratigraphic framework, geote...

This paper considers the uncertainties in geotechnical parameters of earth fill structures, s pecifically their spatial variability. The use of random field theory will be introduced, in conjunction with the stochastic finite element method, to describe and m odel the uncertainty in geotechnical properties of compacted soil masses. The paper focuses on the imp ortance of the use of conditional ...