The use of Piled Raft Foundations Systems (PRFS) has been extended to different types of soils, including soft clay soils. In this type of soil it is possible that, in addition to the consolidation process due to the presence of loads, a subsidence process is generated, associated with variations in pore pressure with depth. In many cases, these variati...
View ArticleFiltered tailings is the disposal technology that is most likely to yield an unsaturated state of the tailings. Such state has important benefits. A dam to contain the mine wastes is no longer needed, the risk of polluting seepage is minimized, and liquefaction of tailings is prevented. Filtering also allows most of the water mixed with the tailings to ...
View ArticleThe ability to estimate soil volume change as a function of time is a valuable tool in the design or forensic analysis of shallow foundations and pavement structures. This paper presents an improved framework for estimating the volume change of shrink/swell soils due to time-varying climatic effects using the Lytton et al. (2005) approach with the sucti...
View ArticleThe present work documents some of the most recent experimental evidence of the thermohydro-mechanical behavior of compacted soils over a whole range of suction- and/or thermo-controlled stress paths and modes of deformation, including data from a series of triaxial, true triaxial, plane strain, ring shear, and resonant column tests conducted on differe...
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