Exopolysaccharides, known as bacterial EPS, are complex sugar polymers that bacteria
secrete into their environment. EPSs play a crucial role in bacterial survival and proliferation …

Integral bridges have been proposed as a jointless design alternative to the traditional
counterparts, possessing copious potential economic and structural advantages. However …

This article presents a micro-structure tensor enhanced elasto-plastic finite element (FE)
method to address strength anisotropy in three-dimensional (3D) soil slope stability analysis …

Six geosynthetic-reinforced soil (GRS) retaining walls supporting bridge approach roads of
an overpass bridge in China exhibited a series of structural problems after 18 years of …

The construction of integral bridges is one of the most effective methods to reduce bridges'
construction and in-service costs. However, there are associated geotechnical problems …

Geosynthetic reinforced soil (GRS) abutments have emerged as innovative improvement
measures over the conventional GRS walls. Being an internally stabilized composite …

Expansion and contraction of an integral abutment bridge cause an abutment to move
toward and away from its backfill due to seasonal temperature changes, thus causing high …

Geotechnical engineering projects involving retaining walls require the calculation of lateral
earth pressures behind these walls. This paper assesses several analytical solutions …

Geosynthetic-reinforced soil (GRS) retaining walls have been widely adopted in engineering
practice based on the development of several design methods. However, the temperature …

An approach slab typically has a negligible settlement on one end supported by an integral
bridge abutment, but a considerable settlement on the other end underlain by a sleeper slab …