Acta Geotechnica

Volume 5, Number 4, (December 2010)

Thermal conductivity measurements of coarse-grained gravel materials using a hollow

cylindrical sensor

Norbert I. Kömle, Erika S. Hütter and Wenjie J. Feng

Effect of density and compressibility on K0 of cohesionless soils

Peijun Guo

Exploring the undrained induced anisotropy of Hostun RF loose sand

T. Doanh, Ph. Dubujet and G. Touron

Formulation and validation of a constitutive model for sands in monotonic shear

A. Sfriso and G. Weber

Effect of local nonlinearity in cohesionless soil on optimal radius minimizing fixed-head

pile bending by inertial and kinematic interactions

Masato Saitoh

ASTM – Geotechnical Testing Journal

No New Issue

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volume 47, Number 12, (December, 2010)

Performance evaluation of a tailings pond seepage collection system

Naoki Yasuda, Neil R. Thomson, and Jim F. Barker

Three-dimensional stability charts for slopes based on limit analysis methods A. J. Li, R. S. Merifield, and A. V. Lyamin

Impact compression behaviors of high-capacity long piles

Arthur K.O. So and Charles W.W. Ng

Advanced numerical simulation of collapsible earth dams

Márcio Muniz de Farias and Manoel Porfirio Cordão Neto

Design and performance of the Yele asphalt-core rockfill dam

Weibiao Wang, Kaare Höeg, and Yingbo Zhang

A simplified method to estimate the soil-water characteristic curve

Kheng-Boon Chin, Eng-Choon Leong, and Harianto Rahardjo

A model for geotechnical analysis of flow slides and debris flows

Xiaobo Wang, Norbert R. Morgenstern, and Dave H. Chan

Centrifuge modelling of soil slopes reinforced with vegetation

R. Sonnenberg, M. F. Bransby, P. D. Hallett, A. G. Bengough, S. B. Mickovski, and M. C.R.

Davies

Computers and Geotechnics

Volume 37, Issue 7-8 (November 2010)

Characterisation of conduction phenomena in soils at the particle-scale: Finite element

analyses in conjunction with synthetic 3D imaging

Guillermo A. Narsilio, Jeremy Kress, Tae Sup Yun

Sensitivity analysis applied to slope stabilization at failure

V. Navarro, A. Yustres, M. Candel, J. Lopez, E. Castillo

Microscale characterization of energy dissipation mechanisms in liquefiable granular soils

U. El Shamy, C. Denissen

Mobilized side and tip resistances of piles in clay

Mohamed Ashour, Gary M. Norris, Sherif Elfass, Ashraf Z. Al-Hamdan

A semi-analytical solution to consolidation of unsaturated soils with the free drainage well

Aifang Qin, De'an Sun, Liuping Yang, Yufei Weng

Probabilistic stability assessment of slopes using high dimensional model representation

Rajib Chowdhury, B.N. Rao

Evaluation of monotonic and non-monotonic dissipation test results

Emoke Imre, Pal Rozsa, Lachlan Bates, Stephen Fityus

Back analysis of slope failure with Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation

L.L. Zhang, J. Zhang, L.M. Zhang, W.H. Tang

Stress ratio-fabric relationships of granular soils under axi-symmetric stress and plane-

strain loading

Eui-Ryong Jang, Young-Hoon Jung, Choong-Ki Chung

On the response prediction of horizontally loaded fixed-head pile groups in sands

Mello C. Papadopoulou, Emilios M. Comodromos

Modelling pile capacity using Gaussian process regression

Mahesh Pal, Surinder Deswal

Influence of heterogeneity on the reliability and failure of a long 3D slope

M.A. Hicks, W.A. Spencer

Modified Structured Cam Clay: A generalised critical state model for destructured,

naturally structured and artificially structured clays

Jirayut Suebsuk, Suksun Horpibulsuk, Martin D. Liu

A simplified approach for settlement analysis of single pile and pile groups considering

interaction between identical piles in multilayered soils

Qian-Qing Zhang, Zhong-Miao Zhang, Jing-Yu He

Numerical and experimental studies of pressure-controlled cavity expansion in completely

decomposed granite soils of Hong Kong

S.Y. Wang, D.H. Chan, K.C. Lam, S.K.A. AU

Three-dimensional random network model for thermal conductivity in particulate

materials

Tae Sup Yun, T. Matthew Evans

Three-dimensional numerical modelling of the behaviour of a pile subjected to cyclic

lateral loading

E. Bourgeois, M.H.J. Rakotonindriana, A. Le Kouby, P. Mestat, J.F. Serratrice

Scour effects on the response of laterally loaded piles considering stress history of sand

Cheng Lin, Caroline Bennett, Jie Han, Robert L. Parsons

Efficient Monte Carlo Simulation of parameter sensitivity in probabilistic slope stability

analysis

Yu Wang, Zijun Cao, Siu-Kui Au

Numerical solution of active earth pressures on rigid retaining walls built near rock faces

Chia-Cheng Fan, Yung-Show Fang

Engineering Geology

Volume 116, Issues 3-4, (23 November 2010)

Research papers

Shear wave structural models of Venice Plain, Italy, from Time Cross Correlation of

seismic noise

J. Boaga, F. Vaccari, G.F. Panza

Geophysical characterization of contaminated urban fills

Jean-Philippe Boudreault, Jean-Sebastien Dube, Michel Chouteau, Thierry Winiarski, Eric

Hardy

Micro-fabric transformation of Taleqan white clay under constant volume swelling

condition

Arya Assadi Langroudi, S. Shahaboddin Yasrobi

Monitoring of the Beauregard landslide (Aosta Valley, Italy) using advanced and

conventional techniques

G. Barla, F. Antolini, M. Barla, E. Mensi, G. Piovano

Quantitative landslide hazard assessment along a transportation corridor in southern India

Pankaj Jaiswal, Cees J. van Westen, Victor Jetten

Field evaluation of deformation characteristics of a lacustrine clay deposit using seismic

piezocone tests

Guojun Cai, Songyu Liu, Liyuan Tong

Karstification of aquifers interspersed with non-soluble rocks: From basic principles

towards case studies

Douchko Romanov, Georg Kaufmann, Thomas Hiller

Landslide susceptibility mapping in Injae, Korea, using a decision tree

Young-Kwang Yeon, Jong-Gyu Han, Keun Ho Ryu

Analysis of subsidence using TerraSAR-X data: Murcia case study

Gerardo Herrera, Roberto Tomas, Daniel Monells, Giuseppe Centolanza, Jordi J. Mallorqui,

Fernando Vicente, Victor D. Navarro, Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, Margarita Sanabria, Miguel

Cano, Joaquin Mulas

Pore fluid chemistry, stress?strain behaviour, and yielding in reconstituted highly plastic

clay

Alex Man, Jim Graham

Structure and kinematics of a landslide in a complex clayey formation of the Italian

Southern Apennines

C. Di Maio, R. Vassallo, M. Vallario, S. Pascale, F. Sdao

Quantitative evaluation of hydrogeological impact produced by tunnel construction using

water balance models

Juan Ramon Raposo, Jorge Molinero, Jorge Dafonte

In-situ stress measurements and stress distribution characteristics in underground coal

mines in China

H. Kang, X. Zhang, L. Si, Y. Wu, F. Gao

Geomechanics and Geoengineering

Volume 5 Issue 4 2010

Mechanical behaviour of expansive soils after several drying and wetting cycles

Hossein Nowamooz; Farimah Masrouri

Review of mehods of analysis for the use of vacuum preloading and vertical drains for soft

clay improvement

Buddhima Indraratna; Xueyu Geng; Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn

An analytical solution for the nonlinear distribution of effective and total stresses in

vertical backfilled stopes

Li Li; Michel Aubertin

Seismic centrifuge modelling of earth dams

Louis Ge; Yu Bao; Chin-Kuan Ni; Hon-Yim Ko

Application of thermal flux for establishing soil–water characteristic curve of kaolin

B. Hanumantha Rao; D. N. Singh

Seismic uplift capacity of inclined strip anchors in sand using upper bound limit analysis

Priyanka Ghosh

Model for analysis of fiber-reinforced clayey soil

G.L. Sivakumar Babu; Sandeep Kumar Chouksey

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

Volume 4 Issue 4 (Dec 2010)

Application of the dynamic bounds method in the safety assessment of flood defences, a

case study: 17th Street flood wall, New Orleans M. Rajabalinejad; P. H. A. J. M. van Gelder; Zeki Demirbilek; Tew-Fik Mahdi; J. K. Vrijling

Settlement prediction by spatial-temporal random process using Asaoka's method Pongwit Rungbanaphan; Yusuke Honjo; Ikumasa Yoshida

Reliability of shallow foundations designed to Eurocode 7 William S. Forrest; Trevor L. L. Orr

Reduction factors in seismic codes: on the components to be taken into account for design

purposes L. Sanchez-Ricart

Geosynthetics International

Volume 17, Issue 6, (December 2010)

New analytical procedure for seismic analysis of reinforced retaining wall with cohesive-

frictional backfill A. Ghanbari; M. Ahmadabadi

Strength and small-strain modulus of lightweight geomaterials: cement-stabilised sand

mixed with compressible expanded polystyrene beads K. Onishi; Y. Tsukamoto; R. Saito; T. Chiyoda

Deformation response of shored MSE walls under surcharge loading in the centrifuge Y.-B. Lee; H.-Y. Ko; J.S. McCartney

Geosynthetic strain gage installation procedures and alternative strain measurement

methods for roadway applications K.A. Warren; B. Christopher; I.L. Howard

Effect of deformation of prefabricated vertical drains on discharge capacity H.H. Tran-Nguyen; T.B. Edil; J.A. Schneider

Contribution of hand-knotted coir netting to the bearing capacity of loose sand P. Vinod; A.B. Bhaskar

Geotechnical and Geological Engineering

No New Issue

Géotechnique

Volume 60, Issue 12, (December 2010)

Stiff sedimentary clays: geological origins and engineering properties

R.J. CHANDLER

Engineering in stiff sedimentary clays

B. SIMPSON

A microstructurally based effective stress for unsaturated soils

E.E. ALONSO; J.-M. PEREIRA; J. VAUNAT; S. OLIVELLA

Behaviour of an old masonry tunnel due to tunnelling-induced ground settlement

H. MOHAMAD; P.J. BENNETT; K. SOGA; R.J. MAIR; K. BOWERS

Analysis of the cone penetration test in layered clay

J. WALKER; H.-S. YU

Effectiveness of filters in reducing consolidation time in routine laboratory testing

V. SIVAKUMAR; P. MACKINNON; J. ZAINI; P. CAIRNS

The use of particle size distribution by surface area method in predicting the saturated

hydraulic conductivity of graded granular soils

L.D.O. TRANI; B. INDRARATNA

DISCUSSION:

Anisotropic creep model for soft soils M. LEONI, M. KARSTUNEN and P. A. VERMEER

(2008), Géotechnique 58, No. 3, 215–226

E.J. den Haan

Theoretical description of embankment erosion owing to overflow K. FUJISAWA, A.

KOBAYASHI and S. AOYAMA (2009). Géotechnique 59, No. 8, 661–671

Ashok K. Chugh

Geotextiles and Geomembranes

Volume 28, Issue 6, (December, 2010)

Seismic displacements of landfills and deformation of geosynthetics due to base sliding

Varvara Zania, Yiannis Tsompanakis, Prodromos N. Psarropoulos

Ten year creep puncture study of HDPE geomembranes protected by needle-punched

nonwoven geotextiles

Robert M. Koerner, Y.G. Hsuan, George R. Koerner, David Gryger

Behavior of EPS geofoam in stress-controlled cyclic uniaxial tests

Aurelian C. Trandafir, Steven F. Bartlett, Bret N. Lingwall

Vacuum-drain consolidation induced pressure distribution and ground deformation

Jinchun Chai, Zhenshun Hong, Shuilong Shen

Properties of geosynthetics exhumed from a final cover at a solid waste landfill

Craig H. Benson, I. Emre Kucukkirca, Joseph Scalia

Large scale tests on geosynthetic reinforced unpaved roads subjected to surface

maintenance

Ennio M. Palmeira, Luiz G.S. Antunes

Development and interpretation of a multi-axial tension test for geotextiles

T.L. Andrejack, J. Wartman

Investigation of factors influencing behavior of single geocell-reinforced bases under static

loading

Sanat K. Pokharel, Jie Han, Dov Leshchinsky, Robert L. Parsons, Izhar Halahmi

Evaluation of permeability characteristics of a geosynthetic-reinforced soil through

laboratory tests

D.V. Raisinghani, B.V.S. Viswanadham

Two dimensional experimental study for the behaviour of surface footings on unreinforced

and reinforced sand beds overlying soft pockets

M.H.A. Mohamed

Ground Improvement

No New Issue

International Journal of Geomechanics

Volume 10, Issue 6 (November/December 2010)

Special Issue on Modeling in Geotechnical Engineering for Design and Materials

R. A. Tarefder, D. H. Chen, and Y. N. Ge

Measuring and Modeling Proportion-Dependent Stress-Strain Behavior of EPS-Sand

Mixture

An Deng and Yang Xiao

Monitoring and Modeling Grout Efficiency of Lifting Structure in Soft Clay

James C. Ni and Wen-Chieh Cheng

Dynamic Numerical Analysis of Antimoisture-Damage Mechanism of Permeable Pavement

Base

Xin-zhuang Cui

Modeling Permanent Deformation of Unbound Granular Materials under Repeated Loads

Cheng Chen, Louis Ge, and Jiansheng Zhang

Stability of Shallow Tunnel Using Rigid Blocks and Finite-Element Upper Bound Solutions

F. Yang and J. S. Yang

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volume 34, Issue 18 (25 Dec 2010)

Micromechanical parameters in bonded particle method for modelling of brittle material

failure

T. Kazerani and J. Zhao

Physical and numerical investigation of a cemented granular assembly of steel spheres

M. S. Akram and G. B. Sharrock

Time-scale analysis in unsaturated porous media under external wave loads

Heng Xiao, Yin Lu Young and Jean H. Prévost

Large static problem in numerical limit analysis: A decomposition approach Zied Kammoun, Franck Pastor, Hichem Smaoui and Joseph Pastor

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volume 136, Issue 12, December 2010

Lateral Spreading Forces on Bridge Piers and Pile Caps in Laterally Spreading Soil: Effect

of Angle of Incidence

J. A. Knappett, S. Mohammadi, and C. Griffin

Nonlinear Dynamic Response of Piles under Horizontal Excitation

B. Manna and D. K. Baidya

Block Element Method for the Seismic Stability of Rock Slopes

Sheng-hong Chen, Weiming Wang, Hui-feng Zheng, and Isam Shahrour

Validation and Application of Empirical Liquefaction Models

Thomas Oommen, Laurie G. Baise, and Richard Vogel

Large-Scale Passive Earth Pressure Load-Displacement Tests and Numerical Simulation

Patrick Wilson and Ahmed Elgamal

Quantitative Risk Assessment of Cut-Slope Projects under Construction

Zhihong Li, Hongwei Huang, Farrokh Nadim, and Yadong Xue

Resultant Force of Lateral Earth Pressure in Unstable Slopes

Dov Leshchinsky and Fan Zhu

Tunneling beneath Buried Pipes: View of Soil Strain and Its Effect on Pipeline Behavior

A. M. Marshall, A. Klar, and R. J. Mair

Nonlinear Efficiency of Bored Pile Group under Lateral Loading

Anne Lemnitzer, Payman Khalili-Tehrani, Eric R. Ahlberg, Changsoon Rha,

Ertugrul Taciroglu, John W. Wallace, and Jonathan P. Stewart

Role of Linear Elasticity in Pile Group Analysis and Load Test Interpretation

Y. F. Leung, K. Soga, B. M. Lehane, and A. Klar

Influence of Osmotic Suction on the Soil-Water Characteristic Curves of Compacted

Expansive Clay

T. Thyagaraj and Sudhakar M. Rao

Evaporation, Unsaturated Flow, and Salt Accumulation in Multilayer Deposits of “Paste”

Gold Tailings

B. Fisseha, R. Bryan, and P. Simms

Effect of Wetting on Unconfined Compressive Strength of Cemented Sands

Sung-Sik Park

Quantifying Biomediated Ground Improvement by Ureolysis: Large-Scale Biogrout

Experiment

Leon A. van Paassen, Ranajit Ghose, Thomas J. M. van der Linden, Wouter

R. L. van der Star, and Mark C. M. van Loosdrecht

Discussions and Closures

Discussion of “Interference of Two Closely Spaced Strip Footings on Sand Using Model

Tests” by J. Kumar and M. K. Bhoi

M. C. Wang

Closure by Jyant Kumar and Manas Kumar Bhoi

Discussion of “Shear Strength of Municipal Solid Waste” by J. D. Bray, D.

Zekkos, E. Kavazanjian Jr., G. A. Athanasopoulos, and M. F. Riemer

Sukhmander Singh

Closure by Jonathan D. Bray, Dimitrios Zekkos, Edward Kavazanjian Jr.,

George A. Athanasopoulos, and Michael F. Riemer

Discussion of “CPT-Based Method for the Installation of Suction Caissons in

Sand” by Marc Senders and Mark F. Randolph

Felipe A. Villalobos

Soils and Foundations

Vol. 50 (2010), No. 3

TECHNICAL PAPERS

SYSTEM RELIABILITY OF SLOPES BY RFEM

JINSONG HUANG, D. V. GRIFFITHS and GORDON A. FENTON

INFLUENCE OF TRANSIENT FLOODING ON MULTI-ANCHOR WALLS

YOSHIHISA MIYATA, RICHARD J. BATHURST, TAKEHARU KONAMI and KIYOMASA

DOBASHI

SOIL STRUCTURE CHARACTERISTICS OF UNDISTURBED DECOMPOSED

GRANITE SOIL AND THEIR EFFECTS ON COPPER PLUME MIGRATION

SEIICHI SASAKI and ROD LYNCH

ANALYSIS ON SETTLEMENT OF SOIL DEPOSITS FOLLOWING LIQUEFACTION

DURING EARTHQUAKES

YOSHIMICHI TSUKAMOTO and KENJI ISHIHARA

TECHNICAL NOTES

A MODIFIED PROCEDURE TO EVALUATE EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED

DISPLACEMENT OF SLOPES CONTAINING A WEAK LAYER

JIANLIANG DENG, YUKIKA TSUTSUMI, HIROSHI KAMEYA and JUNICHI KOSEKI

COMPARISON OF LIQUEFACTION-INDUCED GROUND DEFORMATION

BETWEEN RESULTS FROM UNDRAINED CYCLIC TORSIONAL SHEAR TESTS

AND OBSERVATIONS FROM PREVIOUS MODEL TESTS AND CASE STUDIES

TAKASHI KIYOTA, JUNICHI KOSEKI and TAKESHI SATO

TESTING METHODS FOR HYDRO-MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF

UNSATURATED SOILS SUBJECTED TO ONE-DIMENSIONAL FREEZE-THAW

ACTION

TATSUYA ISHIKAWA, TETSUYA TOKORO, KOHEI ITO and SEIICHI MIURA

EFFECT OF LATERAL EARTH PRESSURE COEFFICIENT ON PRESSURE

CONTROLLED COMPACTION GROUTING IN TRIAXIAL CONDITION

S. Y. WANG, D. H. CHAN, K. C. LAM and S. K. A. AU

DISCUSSIONS

EXPERIMENTAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR INVESTIGATION OF SOIL STRESSES

DEVELOPED AROUND A DISPLACEMENT PILE

THE USE OF MINIATURE SOIL STRESS MEASURING CELLS IN LABORATORY

APPLICATIONS INVOLVING STRESS REVERSALS

MARK TALESNICK

EXPERIMENTAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR INVESTIGATION OF SOIL STRESSES

DEVELOPED AROUND A DISPLACEMENT PILE

THE USE OF MINIATURE SOIL STRESS MEASURING CELLS IN LABORATORY

APPLICATIONS INVOLVING STRESS REVERSALS (Closure)

RICHARD J. JARDINE

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Vol.30, Issue 12, (December, 2010)

Investigating on the 1920 Garfagnana earthquake (Mw=6.5): Evidences of site effects in

Villa Collemandina (Tuscany, Italy)

Roberto De Ferrari, Gabriele Ferretti, Simone Barani, Daniele Spallarossa

Interaction of foundation−structure systems with seismically precarious slopes: Numerical

analysis with strain softening constitutive model

R. Kourkoulis, I. Anastasopoulos, F. Gelagoti, G. Gazetas

Analytical evaluation of the dynamic distress of rigid fixed-base retaining systems

George Papazafeiropoulos, Prodromos N. Psarropoulos

A SANISAND model with anisotropic elasticity

Ali Lashkari

Landslide intelligent prediction using object-oriented method

Xianmin Wang, Ruiqing Niu

Hydroelastic vibration and buckling of rectangular Mindlin plates on Pasternak

foundations under linearly varying in-plane loads

Sh. Hosseini-Hashemi, Mahmoud Karimi, D.T. Hossein Rokni

A 2.5D coupled FE-BE model for the prediction of railway induced vibrations

P. Galvín, S. François, M. Schevenels, E. Bongini, G. Degrande, G. Lombaert

Disaggregation-based response weighting scheme for seismic risk assessment of structures

Ludovica Elefante, Fatemeh Jalayer, Iunio Iervolino, Gaetano Manfredi

Phase-scanning approach to correct time-shift inaccuracies in the surface-wave walk-away

method

Edwin A. Obando, Choon B. Park, Nils Ryden, Peter Ulriksen

Field velocity resistivity probe for estimating stiffness and void ratio

Hyung-Koo Yoon, Jong-Sub Lee