Journal Articles (Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering)
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- 82Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Program
- 82Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Program/Journal Articles (Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering)
- 4Railway Ground Hazards Research Project (RGHRP)
- 4Railway Ground Hazards Research Project (RGHRP)/Journal Articles (RGHRP)
- 1Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of
- 1Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of/Research Materials (Civil & Environmental Engineering)
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2003
Kaiser, P., Hajiabdolmajid, V., Martin, C. D.
In deep underground excavations in hard rocks where stresses easily exceed the micro-crack initiation stress level inside the rock mass, proper consideration of the behaviour of rockmass during the brittle fracturing process in constitutive modelling is of paramount importance. Current empirical...
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1992
Ferreira, R. S., Robertson, P. K.
Abstract: An interpretation method has been developed to incorporate nonlinear soil behavior to interpret undrained pressure-meter test results. The method makes use of both the loading and unloading portions of the pressuremeter test. The proposed interpretation method accepts that some level of...
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1993
Chan, D. H., Tannant, D. D., Kaiser, P. K.
Abstract: During an excavation-response experiment performed at the Underground Research Laboratory (Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Pinawa, Man.) a decrease in fracture-zone transmissivity was measured as a tunnel intersected the room 209 fracture zone. The decrease in transmissivity was...
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1999
Robertson, P. K., Wride, C. E., McRoberts, E. C.
Abstract: When sandy soils respond in a strain-softening manner to undrained loading, an estimation of the resulting undrained shear strength (S-u) is required to determine the potential for flow liquefaction at a given site. One of the most commonly used methods for estimating the undrained...
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1995
Abstract: A framework for estimating the ultimate undrained steady state shear strength of sand (S-u) from in situ tests, which combines the theory of critical state soil mechanics with shear wave velocity measurements, is presented. For a particular direction of undrained loading, samples of a...
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2002
Merckelbach, L. M., Pyke, R., Chan, D., Znidarcic, D., Bartholomeeusen, G., Winterwerp, H., Penumadu, D., Carrier, W. D., van Kesteren, W., Masala, S., Sills, G. C., Lin, H.
Large-strain consolidation theory is widely used for the management of dredged disposal sites. The theory is universally accepted to deal with this problem, though the determination of the material properties is not yet standardised. Decisions made on this level can lead to the prediction of a...
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A web-based GIS for managing and assessing landslide data for the town of Peace River, Canada
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Kim, T. H., Chao, D., Martin, C. D., Froese, C. R., Morgan, A. J., Chowdhury, S., Lan, H. X.
Abstract. Assessment of geological hazards in urban areas must integrate geospatial and temporal data, such as complex geology, highly irregular ground surface, fluctuations in pore-water pressure, surface displacements and environmental factors. Site investigation for geological hazard studies...
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Mesofabric, Microfrabric, and Submicrofabric of Ice-Thrust Bedrock, Highvale Mine, Wabamum Lake Area, Alberta
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Cruden, D. M., Tsui, P. C., Thomson, S.
The fabric of the ice-thrust argillaceous bedrock from a shear zone was studied in hand specimens, under a polarizing microscope and a scanning electron microscope. The fabric included principal displacement shears, Riedel shears, conjugate sets of particle alignments, cutans, lithorelics, and...
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Simplified geostatistical analysis of earthquake-induced ground response at the Wildlife Site, California, U.S.A
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Elkateb, T., Chalaturnyk, R., Robertson, P. K.
Abstract: Almost all natural soils are highly variable and rarely homogeneous. In this study, the seismic response of the Wildlife Site, Imperial Valley, California, U.S.A., has been analysed to assess the effect of ground heterogeneity on liquefaction assessment in a probabilistic analysis...