Acta Geotechnica

Volume 5, Number 2, June, 2010

Computations of uplift capacity of pile anchors in cohesionless soil

V. B. Deshmukh, D. M. Dewaikar and Deepankar Choudhury

Finite element study of patterns of shear zones in granular bodies during plane strain

compression

Jacek Tejchman and Jarek Górski

Finite element evaluation of the effects of faulting on a shallow tunnel in alluvial soil

Annamaria Cividini, Giancarlo Gioda and Vincenzo Petrini

Modeling strategy for jointed rock masses reinforced by rock bolts in tunneling practice

Shunsuke Sakurai

Geostatistical downscaling of fracture surface topography accounting for local roughness

Hirotaka Saito and Giovanni Grasselli

Spatial estimation of geotechnical parameters for numerical tunneling simulations and

TBM performance models

Maria Stavropoulou, George Xiroudakis and George Exadaktylos

ASTM – Geotechnical Testing Journal

Volume 33, Issue 4, July 2010

Real-Time Diagnosis Method of Compaction State of Subgrade during Dynamic

Compaction

Cui X.

Reduction of Earth Pressure on Buried Pipes by EPS Geofoam Inclusions

Kim H., Choi B., Kim J.

Spatial Deformation Measurement Using Transparent Soil

Iskander M., Liu J.

An Experimental Technique for Determining the Hydraulic Properties of Unsaturated

Pyroclastic Soils

Nicotera M., Papa R., Urciuoli G.

Particle Elongation and Deposition Effect to Macroscopic and Microscopic Responses of

Numerical Direct Shear Tests

Yan W.

Specific Gravity of Expansive Chromium Ore Processing Residue with Complex

Microstructure

Millspaugh A., Tinjum J., Boecher T.

Liquefaction of Heterogeneous Sand: Centrifuge Study

Chakrabortty P., Popescu R., Phillips R.

Modified Direct Shear Apparatus for Unsaturated Sands at Low Suction and Stress

Likos W., Wayllace A., Godt J., Lu N.

Integrated Air Trap and Volume Gauge for Axis Translation Systems

Infante Sedano J., Garga V., Vanapalli S.

Modified Null Pressure Plate Apparatus for Measurement of Matric Suction

Power K., Vanapalli S.

Estimation of Flow Characteristics in Peat

Malinowska E., Szymanski A., Sas W.

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volume 47, Number 7, July 2010

Characterization of Norwegian marine clays with combined shear wave velocity and

piezocone cone penetration test (CPTU) data

Michael Long and Shane Donohue

Dimensional analysis of natural debris flows

Gordon G.D. Zhou and Charles W.W. Ng

Field investigation of the effect of installation method on the shaft resistance of piles in clay

Kenneth Gavin, David Gallagher, Paul Doherty, and Bryan McCabe

Experimental modelling of debris flow behaviour using a geotechnical centrifuge

Elisabeth T. Bowman, Jan Laue, Bernd Imre, and Sarah M. Springman

Cementation and bond degradation of rubber–sand mixtures

Changho Lee, Q. Hung Truong, and Jong-Sub Lee

The mechanics of subglacial sediment: an example of new ―transitional‖ behaviour

Fatin Altuhafi, Béatrice A. Baudet, and Peter Sammonds

On the ―elastic‖ stiffness in a high-cycle accumulation model for sand: a comparison of

drained and undrained cyclic triaxial tests

Torsten Wichtmann, Andrzej Niemunis, and Theodor Triantafyllidis

An efficient approach for locating the critical slip surface in slope stability analyses using a

real-coded genetic algorithm

Yu-Chao Li, Yun-Min Chen, Tony L.T. Zhan, Dao-Sheng Ling, and Peter John Cleall

A simple model for the effect on soil strength of episodes of remoulding and reconsolidation

David J. White and Matt Hodder

Computers and Geotechnics

Volume 37, Issue 5, July 2010

A comparative micromechanical analysis of the effective properties of a geomaterial: Effect

of mineralogical compositions

A. Abou-Chakra Guery, F. Cormery, J.-F. Shao, D. Kondo

Seismic landslide simulations in discontinuous deformation analysis

Jian-Hong Wu

Soil nailed slope by strength reduction and limit equilibrium methods

W.B. Wei, Y.M. Cheng

Numerical simulation of damage-Permeability relationship in brittle geomaterials

Keyvan Maleki, Ahmad Pouya

Intelligent prediction of the stress-strain response of intact and jointed rocks

Arunakumari Garaga, Gali Madhavi Latha

Two-dimensional parametric study of geosynthetic-reinforced column-supported

embankments by coupled hydraulic and mechanical modeling

Jie Huang, Jie Han

Influence of rain infiltration on the stability of compacted soil slopes

Won Taek Oh, Sai K. Vanapalli

A discrete approach for anisotropic plasticity and damage in semi-brittle rocks

D.W. Hu, Q.Z. Zhu, H. Zhou, J.F. Shao

Comparison between the Gauss' law method and the zero current method to calculate

multi-species ionic diffusion in saturated uncharged porous materials

Bjorn Johannesson

Effect of degree of saturation on mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils and its

elastoplastic simulation

De'an Sun, Wenjing Sun, Li Xiang

Free field ground motions at various depths derived from actual seismograph records by

using elastodynamic infinite elements

Sakda Katawaethwarag, Pisidhi Karasudhi

Yield surfaces and flow rules for deformation of granular materials with a volume

constraint

C.M. Sands, H.W. Chandler

Stability analysis of slopes in soils with strain-softening behavior

E. Conte, F. Silvestri, A. Troncone

Technical communications

Breakage and deformation mechanisms of crushable granular materials

Enlong Liu

Bearing capacity of interfering multiple strip footings by using lower bound finite elements

limit analysis

Jyant Kumar, Paramita Bhattacharya

Engineering Geology

Volume 114, Issues 1-2, (23 June 2010)

A linear regression framework for predicting subsurface geometries and displacement

rates in deep-seated, slow-moving landslides

Rennie B. Kaunda

Seismically-induced landslide susceptibility evaluation: Application of a new procedure to

the island of Ischia, Campania Region, Southern Italy

A. Rapolla, V. Paoletti, M. Secomandi

Modelling of cement raw material compositional indices with direct sequential

cosimulation

José António de Almeida

Use of lime and cement treated soils as pile supported load transfer platform

U.S. Okyay, D. Dias

The 28 October 1996 landslide and analysis of the stability of the current Huashiban slope

at the Liangjiaren Hydropower Station, Southwest China

Jia-Wen Zhou, Wei-Ya Xu, Xing-Guo Yang, Chong Shi, Zhao-Hui Yang

The mechanics of surficial failure in soil slopes

Poul V. Lade

Using a leaky swimming pool for a huge falling-head permeability test

Robert P. Chapuis

Effect of rising water table in an unsaturated slope

Reto Schnellmann, Matthias Busslinger, Hans R. Schneider, Harianto Rahardjo

Effects of soil aggregates on debris-flow mobilization: Results from ring-shear experiments

Neal R. Iverson, Janet E. Mann, Richard M. Iverson

Technical note: Analysis of a complex toppling-circular slope failure

Leandro R. Alejano, Iván Gómez-Márquez, Roberto Martínez-Alegría

Discussion papers:

Comment on ―Weak tensile characteristics of loess in China — An important reason for

ground fissures‖ by Ping Sun, Jian-bing Peng, Li-wei Chen, Yue-ping Yin, Shu-ren Wu [Engineering Geology 108 (2009) 153–159]

Ling Xu

Reply to the discussion by Ling Xu on ―Weak tensile characteristics of loess in China — An

important reason for ground fissure‖ by Ping Sun, Jian-Bing Peng, Li-Wei Chen, Yue-Ping

Yin and Shu-Ren Wu, [Engineering Geology 108 (2009) 153–159]

Geomechanics and Geoengineering

Volume 5, Issue 2, 2010

Pipe-soil shear interaction stiffness in horizontal directional drilling and pipe bursting

Abdul Ghafar Chehab; Ian Moore

Fibre-reinforcement of granular materials: DEM visualisation and analysis

Sebastian Lobo-Guerrero; Luis E. Vallejo

Effect of spatial correlation structure and transformation model on the design of shallow

strip footing

Dasaka S. Murty; G.L. Sivakumar Babu

Dynamic behavior of small-scale model of nailed steep slopes

Debabrata Giri; Aniruddha Sengupta

Revisiting correlations between index properties and residual friction angle of natural soils

using artificial neural networks

Abidin Kaya

Using a seismic survey to measure the shear modulus of clean and fouled ballast

P. Anbazhagan; Buddhima Indraratna; Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn; Lijun Su

New class of solutions for water infiltration problems in unsaturated soils

M. Omidvar; A. Barari; M. Momeni; D. D. Ganji

Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards

Volume 4, Issue 2, 2010

Pumping-rate control for contaminated groundwater with VOCs by using fuzzy inference

model

Toshiro Hata; Yoshihisa Miyata; Yusuke Honjo

Soil liquefaction modelling by survival analysis regression

Avinash M. Nafday

Adequacy of field pullout testing of soil nails

G.L. Sivakumar Babu; Vikas Pratap Singh

Estimating spatial correlation structures based on CPT data

Chia-Nan Liu; Chien-Hsun Chen

Geosynthetics International

(No New Issue)

Geotechnical and Geological Engineering

Volume 28, Number 4, July 2010

2D Numerical Simulations of Soil Nail Walls

Vikas Pratap Singh and G. L. Sivakumar Babu

An Empirical Method for Analysis of Load Transfer and Settlement of Single Piles

J. R. Omer, R. Delpak and R. B. Robinson

An oil sand pseudo-elastic model for determining ground deformation under large mobile

mining equipment

Ardeshir Dehmoobed Sharif-abadi and Tim Grain Joseph

Applications of Numerical Modelling for Strata Control in Mines

G. S. P. Singh, U. K. Singh and V. M. S. R. Murthy

Comparison of Numerical Formulations for Two-phase Flow in Porous Media

B. Ataie-Ashtiani and D. Raeesi-Ardekani

Determination of Coefficient of Radial Consolidation Using Steepest Tangent Fitting

Method

J. S. Vinod, A. Sridharan and Buddhima Indraratna

Determination of Swelling and Shrinkage Properties of Undisturbed Expansive Soils

Maki Ito and Shahid Azam

Dynamic Properties of Municipal Solid Waste in Bioreactor Landfills with Degradation

M. S. Hossain, M. A. Haque and L. R. Hoyos

Erratum to: Uplift Capacity of Single Bent Pile and Pile Group Considering Arching

Effects in Sand

Amit Shelke, P. Basha, P. K. Basudhar, N. R. Patra and Sudib Mishra

Experimental and Numerical Study of Strip Footing Supported on Stabilized Sand Slope

M. El Sawwaf

Foundation Floor Geological Mapping of a Nuclear Reactor

C. Harikumar, C. Sivathanu Pillai and S. C. Chetal

Influence of Particle Morphology on the Hydraulic Behavior of Coal Ash and Sand

Karla Salvagni Heineck, Rosemar Gomes Lemos, Juan Antônio Altamirano Flores and Nilo

Cesar Consoli

Laboratory Comparison of Crushed Aggregate and Recycled Pavement Material With and

Without High Carbon Fly Ash

Haifang Wen, Justin Warner, Tuncer Edil and Gingan Wang

Longwall Face Stability Index for Estimation of Chock-Shield Pressure and Face

Convergence

A. K. Verma and D. Deb

Portland Cement Stabilization of Soil–Bentonite for Vertical Cutoff Walls Against Diesel

Oil Contaminant

Nilo Cesar Consoli, Karla Salvagni Heineck and J. Antonio H. Carraro

Prediction of Rock Fragmentation Due to Blasting in Sarcheshmeh Copper Mine Using

Artificial Neural Networks

M. Monjezi, H. Amiri, A. Farrokhi and K. Goshtasbi

Seismic Passive Earth Thrust on Retaining Walls with Cohesive Backfills Using Pseudo-

Dynamic Approach

A. H. Shafiee, A. Eskandarinejad and M. Jahanandish

Sensitivity Analysis of Time Dependent Settlements in Hydraulic Fills

João Flávio Vieira de Vasconcellos, Shailesh Singh and Nagaratnam Sivakugan

Three Dimensional Numerical Analysis of Underground Bifurcated Tunnel

Xianshan Liu and Yong Wang

Ultimate Bearing Capacity of a Footing Considering the Interference of an Existing

Footing on Sand

K. M. Kouzer and Jyant Kumar

Uplift Capacity of Single Bent Pile and Pile Group Considering Arching Effects in Sand

Amit Shelke and Sudib Mishra

Géotechnique

Volume 60, Issue 7, July 2010

Geohazards and large, geographically distributed systems

T.D. O'ROURKE

Strain path controlled shear tests on an analogue granular material

E. IBRAIM; J. LANIER; D.MUIR WOOD; G. VIGGIANI

Effect of relative density and confining pressure on Poisson ratio from bender and extender

elements tests

J. KUMAR; B.N. MADHUSUDHAN

DISCUSSION: Closed-form solution for plastic zone formation around a circular tunnel in

half-space obeying Mohr–Coulomb criterion. S. A. MASSINAS and M. G.

SAKELLARIOU (2009). Géotechnique 59, No. 8, 691–701.

S. Chen; Y.N. Abousleiman

DISCUSSION: Fractal analysis of temperature-induced cracking in clays and rocks. L. E.

VALLEJO (2009). Géotechnique 59, No. 3, 283–286

P. Smart

Book review: Image analysis

Federica Cotecchia

Book review: Piling engineering

Byron Byrne

Book review: A short course in geology for civil engineers

Bob Fowell

Book review: Ground gas handbook

John McDougall

Geotextiles and Geomembranes

(No Issue for July)

Ground Improvement

(No New Issue)

International Journal of Geomechanics

(No New Issue)

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volume 34 Issue 9 (25 June 2010)

Rheological characteristics of solid-fluid transition in dry granular dense flows: A

thermodynamically consistent constitutive model with a pressure-ratio order parameter

Chung Fang

Non-coaxial elasto-plasticity model and bifurcation prediction of shear banding in sands

Maosong Huang, Xilin Lu, Jiangu Qian

Work and energy equations and the principle of generalized effective stress for unsaturated

soils C. G. Zhao, Y. Liu, F. P. Gao

Time-dependent behaviour of a rigid foundation on a transversely isotropic soil layer

Shengli Chen, Younane Abousleiman

A yield criterion for isotropic and cross-anisotropic cohesive-frictional materials

G. Mortara

Discrete element modeling of direct shear tests for a granular material

Ying Yan, Shunying Ji

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volume 34 Issue 10 (July 2010)

Study on the action of the active earth pressure by variational limit equilibrium method Li

Xinggao, Liu Weining

A destructuration theory and its application to SANICLAY model

Mahdi Taiebat, Yannis F. Dafalias, Ralf Peek

Damage-viscoplastic consistency model for rock fracture in heterogeneous rocks under

dynamic loading

Timo Saksala

Limiting equilibrium method for slope/drilled shaft system Mohammad Yamin, Robert Y. Liang

A multiscale finite element formulation for axisymmetric elastoplasticity with volumetric

locking

Kaiming Xia, Kenn K. Q. Zhang

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volume 136, Issue 7, July 2010

Performance of a PRB for the Remediation of Acidic Groundwater in Acid Sulfate Soil

Terrain

Buddhima Indraratna, Gyanendra Regmi, Long Duc Nghiem, and Alexandra Golab

Field Assessment of the Performance of a Ballasted Rail Track with and without

Geosynthetics

Buddhima Indraratna, Sanjay Nimbalkar, David Christie, Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn, and Jayan

Vinod

Centrifuge Testing to Evaluate and Mitigate Liquefaction-Induced Building Settlement

Mechanisms

Shideh Dashti, Jonathan D. Bray, Juan M. Pestana, Michael Riemer, and Dan Wilson

Antioxidant Depletion from a High Density Polyethylene Geomembrane under Simulated

Landfill Conditions

R. Kerry Rowe, M. Z. Islam, R. W. I. Brachman, D. N. Arnepalli, and A. Ragab Ewais

Parametric Solutions for Slide Impact on Pipelines

Mark F. Randolph, Donghee Seo, and David J. White

Physical Modeling of Lateral Clay-Pipe Interaction

José R. M. S. Oliveira, Márcio S. S. Almeida, Maria C. F. Almeida, and Ricardo G. Borges

Shear Strength in Preexisting Landslides

Timothy D. Stark and Manzoor Hussain

Unsaturated Infinite Slope Stability Considering Surface Flux Conditions

Quentin B. Travis, Sandra L. Houston, Fernando A. M. Marinho, and Mark Schmeeckle

Probabilistic Assessment of Slope Stability That Considers the Spatial Variability of Soil

Properties

Sung Eun Cho

Wall and Ground Movements due to Deep Excavations in Shanghai Soft Soils

J. H. Wang, Z. H. Xu, and W. D. Wang

CASE STUDIES

Reliability Analysis of Earth Dams

G. L. Sivakumar Babu and Amit Srivastava

TECHNICAL NOTES

Effects of Strain Localization on Seismic Active Earth Pressures

Jian-Min Zhang, Fei Song, and De-Ji Li

Simple Model for the Cyclic Behavior of Smooth Sand-Steel Interfaces

G. Mortara, D. Ferrara, and G. Fotia

Soils and Foundations

Vol. 50 (2010), No. 2

TECHNICAL PAPERS

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SAND SUBJECTED TO CYCLIC LOAD UNDER

UNDRAINED CONVENTIONAL TRIAXIAL TEST

YOUNGJI JIN, YE BIN and ZHANG FENG

TIME EFFECTS ON TOTAL SUCTION OF BENTONITES

TOM SCHANZ, YULIAN FIRMANA ARIFIN, MUHAMMAD IBRAR KHAN and

SETIANTO SAMINGAN AGUS

EVALUATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF ELASTO-VISCOPLASTIC SCALING

FUNCTIONS ON MODELLING TIME-DEPENDENT BEHAVIOUR OF NATURAL

CLAYS

ZHEN-YU YIN, MINNA KARSTUNEN and PIERRE-YVES HICHER

PULLOUT RESISTANCE OF BEARING REINFORCEMENT EMBEDDED IN SAND

SUKSUN HORPIBULSUK and ANEK NIRAMITKORNBUREE

CENTRIFUGE MODEL TESTS OF A ROCKFILL DAM AND SIMULATION USING

CONSOLIDATION ANALYSIS METHOD

YUJI KOHGO, AKIRA TAKAHASHI and TOMOKAZU SUZUKI

PREDICTIVE SIMULATION OF DEFORMATION AND FAILURE OF PEAT-

CALCAREOUS SOIL LAYERED GROUND DUE TO MULTISTAGE TEST

EMBANKMENT LOADING

TOSHIHIRO TAKAINE, MUTSUMI TASHIRO, TAKAHIKO SHIINA, TOSHIHIRO NODA

and AKIRA ASAOKA

EXPERIMENTAL MODELING OF LARGE PILE GROUPS IN SLOPING GROUND

SUBJECTED TO LIQUEFACTION-INDUCED LATERAL FLOW: 1-G SHAKING

TABLE TESTS

RAMIN MOTAMED, VLATKO SESOV, IKUO TOWHATA and NGO TUAN ANH

OBSERVED BEHAVIOUR OF A TUNNEL IN SAND SUBJECTED TO SHEAR

DEFORMATION IN A CENTRIFUGE

SHUHEI SHIBAYAMA, JUN IZAWA, AKIHIRO TAKAHASHI, JIRO TAKEMURA and

OSAMU KUSAKABE

TECHNICAL REPORTS

PORE WATER PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS IN THE INTERPRETATION OF THE

HYDRAULIC BEHAVIOUR OF TWO EARTH DAMS

LUCA PAGANO, ENZO FONTANELLA, STEFANIA SICA and AUGUSTO DESIDERI

LANDSLIDE MODEL TEST SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATION ON THE STUDY OF

SHILIUSHUBAO LANDSLIDE IN THREE GORGES RESERVOIR AREA

X. Q. LUO, H. SUN, L. G. THAM and S. M. JUNAIDEEN

TECHNICAL NOTES

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE ADDITIONAL SETTLEMENT OF FOOTINGS

RESTING ON GRANULAR SOILS BY WATER TABLE RISE

BLAIN A. MORGAN, SANJAY K. SHUKLA and NAGARATNAM SIVAKUGAN

COUPLED SHEAR STRAIN-PORE PRESSURE RESPONSES OF SOIL IN SHAKING

TABLE TESTS

WEN-JONG CHANG, TZOU-SHIN UENG, CHIA-HAN CHEN and CHIH-WEI YANG

DISCUSSIONS

EQUATIONS OF STATE IN SOIL COMPRESSION BASED ON STATISTICAL

MECHANICS

IGNACIO G. TEJADA and RAFAEL JIMENEZ

EQUATIONS OF STATE IN SOIL COMPRESSION BASED ON STATISTICAL

MECHANICS

MASAHARU FUKUE and CATHERINE N. MULLIGAN

NONLINEAR ANALYSIS OF TORSIONALLY LOADED PILE GROUPS

FRANCESCO BASILE

NONLINEAR ANALYSIS Of TORSIONALLY LOADED PILE GROUPS

L. G. KONG and L. M. ZHANG

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Vol.30, Issue 7, July 2010

Ground motion modelling in Tehran based on the stochastic method

Saman Yaghmaei-Sabegh, Nelson T.K. Lam

Study on elastic response of structures to near-fault ground motions through record

decomposition

S. Farid Ghahari, Hossein Jahankhah, M. Ali Ghannad

Forced vertical vibration of rigid circular disc buried in an arbitrary depth of a

transversely isotropic half space

Morteza Eskandari-Ghadi, Azizollah Ardeshir-Behrestaghi

Effect of ground-motion asynchronism on the equivalent acceleration of earth dams

Emilio Bilotta, Luca Pagano, Stefania Sica

Liquefaction behaviour of loose and compacted pond ash

Ravi S. Jakka, Manoj Datta, G.V. Ramana

Soil characteristics and site effect assessment in the city of Delhi (India) using H/V and f–k

methods

A.K. Mundepi, J.J. Galiana-Merino, Kamal, Conrad Lindholm

Assessment of variability and uncertainties effects on the seismic response of a liquefiable

soil profile

F. Lopez-Caballero, A. Modaressi-Farahmand-Razavi

Application of Hilbert-Huang transform to characterize soil liquefaction and quay wall

seismic responses modeled in centrifuge shaking-table tests

Yu-Chen Wei, Chung-Jung Lee, Wen-Yi Hung, Huei-Tsyr Chen

A note on the measurement of travel times using bender and extender elements

Jyant Kumar, B.N. Madhusudhan