Dynamics of railway transition zones in soft soils

Adaptive Multiscale Finite Element Method for Subsurface Flow Simulation

Natural geological formations generally show multiscale structural and functional heterogeneity evolving over many orders of magnitude in space and time. In subsurface hydrological simulations the geological model focuses on the structural hierarchy of physical sub units and the flow model addresses the functional hierarchy of the flow process....

The influence of anisotropy on the consolidation behaviour of peat

Soft soil is often described as an anisotropic heterogeneous material. Standard soil investigation mainly involves vertically retrieved samples. Information on the parameters working in the horizontal direction remains scarce. Principally each soil property like permeability, stiffness or strength might show anisotropic behaviour. This thesis...

Technisch rapport waterspanningen bij dijken Waterkeringen (TAW)

Bundelt alle aspecten over waterspanningen, zoals die in de laatste decennia zijn ontwikkeld en in vigerende leidraden en voorschriften voor dijkbeheer en –ontwerp zijn genoemd. Voor verschillende typen dijkprofiel zijn concrete situaties in detail uitgewerkt. In dit rapport is in het bijzonder ingegaan op de praktische toepassing bij toetsen en...

Localization in Dutch dune sand and organic clay. New insight into localization mechanisms

One of the challenging research puzzles in soil mechanics is the subject of strain localization. The investigation of the physico-chemical mechanisms and the conditions under which the strain will localize has been going on for more than a century. The focus of these studies was continuously adapted as new engineering problems occurred or new...

Stochastic characterization of geological heterogeneity and its impact on groundwater contaminant transport

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Dynamical response of saturated and dry soils

Vertical compression of soils