Meteorological and vegetation effects on the thermal analysis of slopes

E Badakhshan, J Vaunat, G Veylon - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Vegetation affects the water balance in the root zone, leading to changes in pore water
pressure in the soil. Despite the tendency of numerical models to overlook the vegetation …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence for the weather-driven deterioration of ageing transportation earthworks in the UK

KM Briggs, PR Helm, JA Smethurst, A Smith… - Transportation …, 2023 - Elsevier
Seasonal, weather-driven pore pressure cycles alter and degrade the hydro-mechanical
engineering properties of earthworks as they age. The accumulating effects of deterioration …

[HTML][HTML] Emulating long-term weather-driven transportation earthworks deterioration models to support asset management

PR Helm, A Svalova, AM Morsy, M Rouainia… - Transportation …, 2024 - Elsevier
The deterioration of transport infrastructure earthworks is a global problem, with negative
impacts for infrastructure resilience, becoming of increasing significance as existing …

A new framework for assessing the evolution of unsaturated soil slope stability under the impact of land–atmosphere interaction: Formulation and application

Y Chen, Y Lai, M Zhang, H Li, Y Zhang - Computers and Geotechnics, 2024 - Elsevier
Currently, with the increase in the number of climate anomalies, the frequency and severity
of landslides and slope failure events are gradually escalating. Therefore, it is imperative to …

Simulation of weather-driven deterioration of clay embankments

AM Morsy, PR Helm, A El-Hamalawi, A Smith… - Geo-Congress …, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
Clay embankments used for road, rail, and flood defense infrastructure experience several
weather-driven deterioration processes that lead to a progressive degradation in their …

Failure Prediction of Clay Embankments Subject to Weather-Driven Deterioration

AM Morsy, PR Helm - Journal of Geotechnical and …, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
Embankments have been widely used in the construction of transportation and flood
defense infrastructure. Embankments constructed from clays experience a suite of weather …

Model for the prediction of residual shear strength of unsaturated soils

X Yang, SK Vanapalli - Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
The residual shear strength (RSS) of unsaturated soils is a crucial parameter for the reliable
analysis and design of geo-structures constructed with or within unsaturated soils …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the Settlement and Deformation of Pile-Supported Embankments Undergoing Groundwater-Level Fluctuations: An Experimental and Simulation …

J Ye, K Wang, Z Qiu, X Wang - Buildings, 2024 - mdpi.com
The intensification of extreme weather phenomena, ranging from torrential downpours to
protracted dry spells, which trigger fluctuations at the groundwater level, poses a grave …

Time-To-Failure Prediction of Fine-Grained Soil Slopes Subject to Weather-Driven Deterioration

AM Morsy - 2024 - rosap.ntl.bts.gov
Embankments have been widely used in the construction of transportation and flood
defense infrastructure. Embankments constructed from clays experience a suite of weather …

[PDF][PDF] Transportation Geotechnics

KM Briggs, PR Helm, JA Smethurst, A Smith, R Stirling… - apmgs.ro
Seasonal, weather-driven pore pressure cycles alter and degrade the hydro-mechanical
engineering properties of earthworks as they age. The accumulating effects of deterioration …