Although fully penetrating stone columns have widely been studied in the literature, the number of published studies on floating stone columns – which also have been efficiently used to improve vertically lengthy soft-clay deposits – is very limited. Basal reinforcement with geosynthetic is another technique that increases overall st...
View ArticleGranular materials (assemblies of contacting grains with inter-granular porosity) form a vast family of materials important in both natural and industrial contexts. Under mechanical loads such systems show complex behaviours relating to the inter- and intra-granular stresses, strains and force transmission as well as the individual grain kinematics and ...
View ArticleThis paper reports the second part of the keynote lecture, whose part I has been already published in this journal, presenting extensive experimental research on the investigation of clay microstructure and its evolution upon loading. Whether the first part focused on the micro to macro behaviour of different reconstituted clays, this part instead conce...
View ArticleIron ore tailings dams must be constantly monitored for safety purposes. Among the aspects traditionally monitored are geotechnical protocols, such as piezometric levels along the dam. Recently, geophysics, a science that studies, among other things, dynamic processes in the Earth, has contributed to non-invasive monitoring using electro-resistivity met...
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