Probabilistic and deterministic stability analyses of the progress of a large mine pit excavation in Brazil are presented herein. A simple method of reliability analysis for quantifying the probability of failure of slopes has been considered and its advantages and limitations are briefly discussed. The variance of the factor of safety is computed for s...
View ArticleThis paper addresses the effect of cadmium incubation time on the electroosmotic decontamination of three residual soils from the Zona da Mata Norte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. The laboratory testing program included the
following: (i) materials, encompassing a lateritic clayey silty sand (soil 1), a non-lateritic claye...
Lateritic soils are widely spread in the Brazilian territory and they have been used as subgrade of pavement layers. Specifically, the Red-yellow latosols are usually clayey soils and are characterized as low bearing capacity materials for flexible pavement layers. As a conventional solution, soil stabilization with hydrated lime or Portland cement has ...
View ArticleThis paper presents a program of direct shear tests in soil reinforced with geogrids, carried out with large-scale equipment. A woven geogrid was placed in sandy soil and positioned with different inclinations inside the shear box. The
strength parameters of the soil-geogrid interface were obtained from shear tests with the geogrid positione...
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