Modern Advancements in the Evaluation of Soil Failure

Dear Colleagues,

Soil failure often causes serious damage to buildings and civil infrastructures and can result in casualties. There have been significant investigations conducted to understand the failure mechanisms of soil in the past few decades. However, natural soil has complicated characteristics due to the complex interactions within the soil’s internal structure at the microscopic level, for example, the interactions between the soil grains, water, air and other structural components such as footing, water pipe, pavement. Most soil failures (such as liquefaction, slope failure, landslide, excessive settlement, pavement failure) occur because of the lack of understanding of soil’s micromechanical and micromechanical behavior. In recent years, there have been significant advancements in laboratory experimentations (e.g. triaxial test, direct simple shear, oedometer, unsaturated triaxial and other tests) and numerical simulations (e.g. finite element method, discrete element method with or without fluid or thermal coupling) for predicting the potential failure of soil. This special issue invites researchers to submit their original works or reviews on any aspect of the evaluation method for soil failure. Example topics can be,

• Advances in numerical methods (DEM, FEM etc)
• Advances in Biotechnologies
• Bearing capacity
• Consolidation
• Constitutive modelling
• Dams/Tailing dams
• Deep foundations
• Emerging technologies in satellite/remote sensing for geotechnical engineering
• Expansive soil
• Geothermal technologies
• Soil liquefaction
• Slope stability
• Landslides
• Pavement
• Retaining structures
• Soft soil
• Soil atmosphere boundary interaction

Dr. Khoi Nguyen
Dr. Md Rajibul Karim
Prof. Dr. Md Mizanur Rahman
Guest Editors

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• liquefaction
• slope stability
• landslides
• pavement
• expansive soil
• retaining structures
• bearing capacity
• consolidation
• soft soil
• tailings dam