In urban areas, soil is often moved in opposite directions: on the one hand, excavated material is removed from construction sites and often ends up in landfills. As such, soil accounts for a quarter ...

Understanding the relationship between plasticity of muddy soil and earth pressure can be crucial to maintaining tunnel stability and predicting ground behavior during earth pressure balance (EPB) ...

Infrastructures often suffer severe damage due to geotechnical hazards of both natural kinds such as floods or earthquakes and man-made ones like underground construction work and excavations. The ...