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Special Collection on Numerical Modeling of Geosystems Under Extreme Events and Geohazard Mitigations
Guest Editors: Dar Hao Chen, Ph.D., PE, Wan-Huan Zhou, Ph.D. M.ASCE and Kazem Ghabraie, Ph.D.
With increasing extreme events, such as hurricanes, tsunamis, tornados, flooding, landslides, and earthquakes in recent years, civil infrastructures are subjected to increasingly stressed environments. Consequently, civil engineers are more than ever facing the challenges of designing, constructing, and maintaining sustainable and resilient infrastructures. Such challenges place unprecedented demands on better understanding of constitutive behaviors of geo-materials and performance of various geosystems under severe weather and geo-hazards. Sustainable designs of geosystems also demand advanced technologies and numerical modeling to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of various mitigation approaches. This special collection provides a platform for sharing the state-of-the-art research outcomes and state-of-the-practice case studies on advanced technologies and numerical modeling of geosystems in modern geotechnical engineering. All papers published in this collection have undergone standard yet rigorous peer review and their origins including four continents are regarded to have wide representativeness. Readers are urged to check back frequently as additional papers for the collection are added as they are accepted and published online.
Papers in this Collection
Numerical Approach to Creep of Rock Based on the Numerical Manifold Method
Xian-Yang Yu; Tao Xu; Michael Heap; Guang-Lei Zhou; and Patrick Baud
Published online: September 11, 2018
Simple Method to Predict Settlement of Composite Foundation under Embankment
Zhi-Feng Wang; Wen-Chieh Cheng; Ya-Qiong Wang; and Jia-Qing Du
Published online: September 20, 2018
Impact of Static Preshearing on Undrained Anisotropy and Shear Characteristics of Sand
K. Pan; Z. X. Yang, M.ASCE; and T. T. Xu
Published online: September 21, 2018
Analytical Solution for Estimating the Stress State in Backfill Considering Patterns of Stress Distribution
Changjie Xu; Qizhi Chen; Wenjun Luo; and Luju Liang
Published online: November 13, 2018
Numerical Simulation of Steel Sheet Pile Support Structures in Foundation Pit Excavation
Jinfeng Wang, M.ASCE; Huawei Xiang; and Jianguo Yan
Published online: January 15, 2019
Conversion Timing of Tunnel Excavation Methods in Upper-Soft and Lower-Hard Stratum Based on Displacement Direction Angle Theory: Case Study
Wei Wang; Mingjun Hu; Hengwen Zhang; and Xuemin Zhang
Published online: February 07, 2019
Cracking Performance of an Operational Tunnel Lining Due to Local Construction Defects
Jinyang Fu; Jiawei Xie; Shuying Wang, A.M.ASCE; Junsheng Yang; Feng Yang; and Hao Pu
Published online: February 11, 2019
Evaluating Crack Resistance of Asphalt Mixture Based on Essential Fracture Energy and Fracture Toughness
Jiupeng Zhang, Ph.D.; Haoqi Tan, M.S.; Jianzhong Pei, Ph.D.; Tian Qu, M.S.; and Wolong Liu, M.S.
Published online: February 12, 2019
Full 3D Displacement Measuring System for 3D Displacement Field of Soil around a Laterally Loaded Pile in Transparent Soil
Bingxiang Yuan; Meng Sun; Yixian Wang; Lihua Zhai; Qingzi Luo; and Xuqun Zhang
Published online: February 25, 2019
Performance of Cement Asphalt Mortar in Ballastless Slab Track over High-Speed Railway under Extreme Climate Conditions
Jinfeng Wang, M.ASCE; Yubing Zhou; Tianmei Wu; and Xi Wu
Published online: March 13, 2019
Modeling Geogrid Pullout Behavior in Sand Using Discrete-Element Method and Effect of Tensile Stiffness
Wei-Bin Chen; Wan-Huan Zhou, M.ASCE; and Xue-Ying Jing
Published online: March 14, 2019
Deformation and Load-Bearing Characteristics of Step-Tapered Piles in Clay under Lateral Load
Tao Fang, Ph.D.; and Ming Huang, Ph.D.
Published online: April 10, 2019
Stress Responses Associated with Earth Pressure Balance Shield Tunneling in Dry Granular Ground Using the Discrete-Element Method
Shuying Wang, M.ASCE; Tongming Qu; Yong Fang; Jinyang Fu; and Junsheng Yang
Published online: April 16, 2019
Performance of a Deep Excavation Irregular Supporting Structure Subjected to Asymmetric Loading
Shouhua Liu; Junsheng Yang; Jinyang Fu; and Xiangcou Zheng
Published online: May 7, 2019
Hierarchical Modeling Method for DEM Simulation and Its Application in Soil–Pile–Cap Interaction and Impact Case
Honghua Zhao, A.M.ASCE; Jin Zhang; Peng Qiu; and Shunying Ji
Published online: May 8, 2019
Impacts of Drying-Wetting and Loading-Unloading Cycles on Small Strain Shear Modulus of Unsaturated Soils
Thang Pham Ngoc; Behzad Fatahi, Ph.D., CPEng; and Hadi Khabbaz, Ph.D.
Published online: May 21, 2019
Permeability Anisotropy of Loess under Influence of Dry Density and Freeze–Thaw Cycles
Jie Lu; Tie-Hang Wang; Wen-Chieh Cheng, M.ASCE; Tao Yang; and Yang Luo
Published online: June 18, 2019
Analytical Solution for Pollutant Diffusion in Soils with Time-Dependent Dispersion Coefficient
Chuang Yu; Hui Wang; Ze-xiang Wu; Wen-jing Sun; and Behzad Fatahi
Published online: July 16, 2019
Strength and Deformation Responses of Biocemented Sands Using a Temperature-Controlled Method
Yang Xiao, M.ASCE; Yang Wang; C. S. Desai, Dist.M.ASCE; Xiang Jiang; and Hanlong Liu
Published online: September 11, 2019
Case Study: Ground Improvement of Yangtze River Floodplain Soils with Combined Vacuum and Surcharge Preloading Method
Jianwen Ding; Xing Wan; Chongqi Zhang; Zhijiang He; and Lun Zhao
Published online: October 11, 2019
Interpretation of Dynamic Pile Load Testing for Open-Ended Tubular Piles Using Finite-Element Method
Mehdi Aghayarzadeh; Hadi Khabbaz; Behzad Fatahi, Ph.D., CPEng., M.ASCE; and Sergei Terzaghi
Published online: December 10, 2019
In Situ Test and Numerical Analysis of Traffic-Load-Induced Cumulative Settlement of Alluvial Silt After Treatment with Burnt Lime
Qing Jin; Xin-zhuang Cui; Jun Li; Jun-wei Su; and Yi-lin Wang
Published online: December 11, 2019
Control of Ground Uplift Based on Flow-Field Regularity during Grouting in Fracture with Flowing Groundwater
Zhuo Zheng; Rentai Liu; Shucai Li; and Honglu Yang
Published online: January 13, 2020
New Creep Constitutive Model for Soft Rocks and Its Application in the Prediction of Time-Dependent Deformation in Tunnels
M. Huang; J. W. Zhan; C. S. Xu; and S. Jiang
Published online: April 24, 2020