State of the Art: MICP soil improvement and its application to liquefaction hazard mitigation

JT DeJong, MG Gomez, AC San Pablo… - Proceedings of the 20th …, 2022 - par.nsf.gov
The field of biogeotechnics has emerged from the realization that processes intrinsic to
natural systems can provide new approaches and inspiration through which the efficiency …

Soil–environment interactions in geotechnical engineering

A Gens - Géotechnique, 2010 - icevirtuallibrary.com
The range of problems that geotechnical engineers must face is increasing in complexity
and scope. Often, complexity arises from the interaction between the soil and the …

A constitutive mechanical model for gas hydrate bearing sediments incorporating inelastic mechanisms

M Sánchez, X Gai, JC Santamarina - Computers and Geotechnics, 2017 - Elsevier
Gas hydrate bearing sediments (HBS) are natural soils formed in permafrost and sub-marine
settings where the temperature and pressure conditions are such that gas hydrates are …

A constitutive model for unsaturated cemented soils under cyclic loading

C Yang, YJ Cui, JM Pereira, MS Huang - Computers and Geotechnics, 2008 - Elsevier
On the basis of plastic bounding surface model, the damage theory for structured soils and
unsaturated soil mechanics, an elastoplastic model for unsaturated loessic soils under cyclic …

A constitutive model for soft clayey rocks that includes weathering effects

NP PINYOL, J Vaunat, EE Alonso - Stiff Sedimentary Clays …, 2011 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Microstructural and mineralogical observations of claystones reveal the presence of clay
aggregates bonded by a skeleton of inert minerals such as calcium carbonate. The …

On the hydromechanical behaviour of argillaceous hard soils-weak rocks

A Gens - Proceedings of the 15th European conference on soil …, 2013 - ebooks.iospress.nl
The paper examines some aspects of the hydromechanical behaviour of argillaceous hard
soils and weak rocks. After considering the wide variety of this class of materials, some …

[HTML][HTML] A fully coupled damage-plasticity model for unsaturated geomaterials accounting for the ductile–brittle transition in drying clayey soils

S Le Pense, C Arson, A Pouya - International Journal of solids and …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper presents a hydro-mechanical constitutive model for clayey soils accounting for
damage-plasticity couplings. Specific features of unsaturated clays such as confining …

Thermo-hydraulic characterisation of soft rock by means of heating pulse tests

J Muñoz, EE Alonso, A Lloret - Géotechnique, 2009 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Low-permeability clayey rocks, currently considered as suitable host rocks for high-level
nuclear waste disposal, pose a challenge for the determination of thermal, hydraulic and …

A bounding surface mechanical model for unsaturated cemented soils under isotropic stresses

AW Bruno, D Gallipoli, M Rouainia… - Computers and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a model that describes the gradual yielding of unsaturated cemented
soils subjected to isotropic loading. The model relies on the definition of a “cementation …

Isotropic yielding of unsaturated cemented silty sand

M Arroyo, MF Amaral, E Romero… - Canadian …, 2013 - cdnsciencepub.com
Unsaturated cemented soils are frequent both as designed materials and as naturally
occurring layers. Both desiccation and cementation act separately as hardening …