Insight into the crack characteristics and mechanisms of retrogressive slope failures: A large-scale model test

Y Yin, Q Deng, W Li, K He, Z Wang, H Li, P An… - Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cracks in the crown area are one of the important indicators in the instability of the landslide
headscarp, potentially offering early warnings for landslide hazards. Due to the complex …

Fractal analysis of cracking in a clayey soil under freeze–thaw cycles

Y Lu, S Liu, L Weng, L Wang, Z Li, L Xu - Engineering Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
Under extreme climate conditions, clayey soils experience not only seasonal drying and
wetting but also frequent freezing and thawing. Cracking would also occur in clayey soils …

Static and seismic stability assessment of 3D slopes with cracks

ZW Li, XL Yang, TZ Li - Engineering Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
The majority of extant analyses on slope stability assumed a two-dimensional plane-strain
condition and/or an intact slope. However, slope failures typically exhibit three-dimensional …

Effect of lime stabilization and partial clinoptilolite zeolite replacement on the behavior of a silt-sized low-plasticity soil subjected to freezing–thawing cycles

S Shirmohammadi, S Ghaffarpour Jahromi, M Payan… - Coatings, 2021 - mdpi.com
Soil stabilization, through either physical or chemical techniques of coating-cementation
development, is a commonly adopted practice in geotechnical and transportation …

Three-dimensional stability of unsaturated soil slopes reinforced by frame beam anchor plates

A Huang, Y Zhu, L Wang, S Ye… - International Journal of …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
The frame beam anchor plate (FBAP) is a new supporting structure to reinforce backfill. The
current studies of slope stability concentrate on homogeneous isotropic dry or saturated …

Stability analysis of seismic slopes with tensile strength cut-off

Y He, Y Liu, H Hazarika, R Yuan - Computers and Geotechnics, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, an analytical approach is developed to obtain the upper-bound solutions of the
slope stability, for both static and dynamic conditions, based on the limit analysis theory …

Numerical simulation of full desiccation process of clayey soils using an extended DDA model with soil suction consideration

L Guo, G Chen, L Ding, L Zheng, J Gao - Computers and Geotechnics, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil desiccation is a common physical phenomenon, which causes many geotechnical
problems to unsaturated clayey soils. In this paper, a proposed model was incorporated into …

Effect of tension crack formation on active earth pressure encountered in unsaturated retaining wall backfills

M Abdollahi, F Vahedifard, M Abed… - … of Geotechnical and …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Despite the potentially significant influence of tension cracks on earth pressures, almost all
of the existing methods either do not account for cracks or treat them in a simplistic manner …

A meshed kinematical approach for 3D slope stability analysis

T Li, W Gong, H Tang, L Zhang - International Journal for …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The limit analysis method has been extensively recognized as an efficient tool for a quick
estimate of slope stability. Its common practice is to divide the potential failure domain into …

[HTML][HTML] Broken line random failure mechanism method in foundation bearing capacity assessment for spatially variable soil

M Chwała, W Zhang - Computers and Geotechnics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents the broken line random failure mechanism method to analyse the
bearing capacity of spatially variable soil. The method uses an upper bound theorem of limit …