Natural soils are usually heterogeneous and characterized with complex microstructures.
Sand–clay mixtures are often used as simplified soils to investigate the mechanical …

The behavior of interfaces between granular soils and structural construction materials has
an important impact on the monotonic and cyclic response of many soil-structure interaction …

The simple shear apparatus is used for tests on the interface between soil and other
construction materials. A comparison was made of its advantages and disadvantages, as …

A physically motivated constitutive law for the behaviour of geologic discontinuities with
dilatancy and contact surface degradation (damage) is presented. In the formulation of the …

The disturbed state concept (DSC) is a unified, constitutive modelling approach for
engineering materials that allows for elastic, plastic, and creep strains, microcracking and …

Difficulty in predicting the transfer of load from a structural element to the surrounding soil
has limited the reliability of geotechnical design and performance. The remaining …

Few studies have focused on evaluating regular surface roughness and its effect on
interfacial shear behavior of the red clay–concrete interface. This paper presents the results …

The shear stress–shear displacement relationship and shear strength parameters of the
interface between the pipe and the surrounding soil are important for designing the jacking …

For the design and performance analyses of geosynthetic-reinforced soil structures under
repeated loading, such as those induced by compaction, traffic and earthquakes, the …

This paper presents the results of an experimental investigation on the cyclic behavior of a
sand-steel interface under constant normal stress and normal stiffness conditions. The …