Soil mechanical fully understanding requires considering a three dimensional approach, including soil response under the second principal stress and its potential anisotropy. In order to achieve such soil mechanical understanding, a true triaxial apparatus might be used. Therefore, in the present research an automated true triaxial apparatus was develop...

In recent years several dam failures have been reported throughout the world, generating a social concern on mine tailings. Along these lines, it became essential to understand the mechanical behavior of these materials in order to refine current design technologies and prevent...

The 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...

The behavior of sands subjected to diverse loading conditions has been the object of many studies in recent decades. Constitutive models that are able to simulate the behavior of sands have been developed based on critical state theory. Researchers have shown that the defining parameters of the critical state line (CSL) can be obtained by performing dra...