A review of sand–clay mixture and soil–structure interface direct shear test

K Yin, AL Fauchille, E Di Filippo, P Kotronis, G Sciarra - Geotechnics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Natural soils are usually heterogeneous and characterized with complex microstructures.
Sand–clay mixtures are often used as simplified soils to investigate the mechanical …

A review on the behavior of helical piles as a potential offshore foundation system

G Spagnoli… - Marine Georesources & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Helical piles are used mainly to resist tension forces generated by uplift and overturning
moments of various structures, therefore they have been suggested as a potential alternative …

[LIBRO][B] Offshore geotechnical engineering

M Randolph, S Gourvenec - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Design practice in offshore geotechnical engineering has grown out of onshore practice, but
the two application areas have tended to diverge over the last thirty years, driven partly by …

Experimental investigations of the soil–concrete interface: physical mechanisms, cyclic mobilization, and behaviour at different temperatures

A Di Donna, A Ferrari, L Laloui - Canadian Geotechnical …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
Behaviour of the pile–soil interface is important to correctly predict the response of floating
piles in terms of displacement and lateral friction. Regarding energy piles, which couple the …

Displacement and strain paths during plane-strain model pile installation in sand

DJ White, MD Bolton - Géotechnique, 2004 - icevirtuallibrary.com
The underlying mechanisms governing the behaviour of displacement piles in sand are not
well understood, leading to unreliability in design methods. A series of plane-strain …

Micro-mechanical analysis of soil–structure interface behavior under constant normal stiffness condition with DEM

P Wang, ZY Yin, WH Zhou, W Chen - Acta Geotechnica, 2021 - Springer
The mechanical behavior at soil–structure interface (SSI) has a crucial influence on the
safety and stability of geotechnical structures. However, the behavior of SSI under constant …

Role of initial state, material properties, and confinement condition on local and global soil-structure interface behavior

JT DeJong, ZJ Westgate - Journal of Geotechnical and …, 2009 - ascelibrary.org
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 …

Effect of roughness on shear behavior of red clay–concrete interface in large-scale direct shear tests

X Chen, J Zhang, Y **ao, J Li - Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2015 - cdnsciencepub.com
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 …

Friction fatigue on displacement piles in sand

DJ White, BM Lehane - Géotechnique, 2004 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Experiments with instrumented displacement piles have shown that the ultimate shaft friction
that can develop in a given sand horizon decreases as the pile tip penetrates to deeper …

Micromechanical analysis of the particle corner breakage effect on pile load performance in coral sand

Y Peng, ZY Yin, X Ding - Acta Geotechnica, 2023 - Springer
Corner breakage was less analyzed in pile–soil interaction research, causing the
mechanism of particular pile load behaviors in coral sand to remain unclear. This study …