Laboratory tests were conducted in soft clay deposits at the Macae/RJ airport in order to obtain geotechnical parameters for a new runway design. The quality of soil samples, extracted with both brass tube (thin-walled) and reinforced PVC tube (thick-walled) soil samplers, was assessed. Both samplers were 700 mm long, with a 7 degree chamfered cutting e...

Results of triaxial tests performed in saturated and unsaturated compacted soil specimens with different interstitial fluids are presented. Tests were carried out in order to study the influence of the fluid relative dielectric constant, ε_r...

This paper applies Bayesian updating of the load capacity of a large steel piling foundation for the high load structure of the Alcântara Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP), located near the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Uncertainty is modeled by a priori and a posteriori distributions of the piling capacity. The a posteriori dis...

This article compares and analyses the behaviour of three test embankments. The soil foundation consisted of
normally consolidated clay overlain by a thick sand surface layer. The embankments were rapidly constructed until failure,
which occurred after approximately 50 days. Two of the embankments were reinforced, one including p...