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Influence Of Anisotropic Stress States On Soil-Structure Interface Behavior: A New Experimental Approach In A Modified Hollow Cylinder Apparatus

Sabine Gehring, Hans Henning Stutz | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

To determine the influence of soil-structure interface behavior on the bearing capacity and deformations of geotechnical structures, suitable testing methods capable of simulating in situ conditions are required. This article introduces a novel test method for soil-structure interface tests. A hollo...
Evaluation Of Slope Failure Through The Assessment Of Meteorological Conditions And Earthworks Management

Nguyen Quang Tuan, Duc Bui Van, Piotr Osinski, Nguyen Van Manh, Ngoc Anh Do, Eugeniusz Koda | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

Slope failures due to erosion effect are a well-established cause of civil engineering structure disasters. Streams passing at the toe of a slope are a severe threat to geotechnical safety, especially in urbanized areas. To increase global safety, a retaining wall is usually proposed to limit the ri...
Design Of The Vienna Metro Shaft: Probabilistic Analysis And Settlement Forecasting Of The Soil-Structure System Via Monte Carlo Simulation

Oksana Kichaieva, Dietmar Adam | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

Reliability and safety assessments require optimizing decision-making throughout the lifecycle of systems such as the “soil mass – underground structure” system. Changes in the engineering-geological environment cause various geohazards that must be identified and evaluated during the project develo...
Interpretation Of Large Diameter Preliminary Pile Tests In Ampthill Clay, West Walton And Oxford Clay Formations For Thame Valley Viaduct

Sergio Vitorino, Hoe-Chian Yeow | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

Two instrumented preliminary test piles have been installed and tested in Aylesbury, UK, using Osterberg Cell bi-directional load test method, for the purpose of verifying the construction methodology and load performance of the bored piled foundations designed for the 880m long HS2 Thame Valley Via...
New Electric Powered Drill Rig To Meet Sustainable Geotechnics

Michel Rispal, Catherine Jacquard, Guilherme de Oliveira Souza, Philippe Reiffsteck | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

Drilling boreholes for geotechnical purposes such as sampling, in-situ tests and permeability testing are usually performed with the aid of drilling machines. These heavy duty machines generally use internal combustion motors to provide energy to hydraulic pumps feeding the different actuators neede...
Insights Into Drop Mass Systems For Predicting Pile Compressive Resistance From Dynamic Load Test Energy Measurements: A Case Study Of The Tagus River Lezã­ria Bridge And Viaducts

Jaime Santos, Jeniffer Viegas | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

The present era is defined by the advent of big data, where large volumes of data are generated and stored daily. However, the true challenge lies in transforming this data into meaningful and actionable information. To extract insights from these vast datasets, there is a growing dependence on data...
Numerical Simulation Of Responses Of A Grid-Shaped Soil Improvement Foundation (Tnf) On Silty Ground Subjected To Consecutive Earthquakes

Han Vo-Cong, Kinji Takeuchi, Yasuo Tomono, Tatsunori Matsumoto | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

Liquefaction induced by earthquakes causes instability of buildings such as large average and/or relative settlements. Such occurrences can lead to damage to the building structures. Usually, when an earthquake occurs, saturated loose sandy ground is the most susceptible to liquefaction. Even for sa...
Seepage In A Flood Protection Levee – First Geotechnical Centrifuge Test Results

Gregor Portmann, André Arnold, Yuen Zhang, Amin Askarinejad | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

Many flood protection levees in Europe were built more than 100 years ago. These levees often do not meet the current flood protection requirements due to increased level of safety requirements, higher damage potential in the valley plains and due to higher peak discharges or water levels expected w...
Foundation Practice And Design In Brazil: A Brief Review Of Past And Future Developments

Renato Pinto da Cunha, Alessander Christopher Morales Kormann, Alexandre Duarte Gusmão, Bernadete Ragoni Danziger, Charles Pereira Chaves, Cristina Hollanda Cavalcanti Tsuha, Fernando Feitosa Monteiro, Fernando Saboya Júnior, Francisco de Rezende Lopes, Heitor Cardoso Bernardes, Heraldo Luiz Giacheti, Marcos Fábio Porto de Aguiar, Maurício Martines Sales, Paulo José Rocha de Albuquerque | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

Brazilian experience in the design and execution of foundations to support superstructures of distinct sorts goes way back to the early colonial period of the XVI century, a few years after the discovery of this land (Katinsky, 1994). Since then, the geotechnical technology related to such construct...
Geosynthetics In Brazil: Historical Overview And Future Developments

Maria das Graças A. Gardoni, Ennio Marques Palmeira, Marcio S. S. Almeida, Gregorio Luis Silva Araújo, Mauricio Ehrlich, Mario Riccio, Eder Carlos Guedes dos Santos, Orencio Monje Vilar | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

This article presents the advances in geosynthetic engineering in Brazil in the last 50 years. The topics addressed encompass soil-geosynthetic interaction, reinforced embankments on soft soils, drainage and filtration, the use of vertical drains to accelerate settlements, geosynthetic-encased granu...
Toward Sustainable Tailings Disposal: A Geotechnical Overview Of Brazilian Research

Márcio de Souza Soares de Almeida, Fernando Schnaid, Romário Stéffano Amaro da Silva, Leonardo De Bona Becker, Bruno Guimarães Delgado, Antonio Jeronimo Pereira de Souza Junior, Frederico Wagner Alvarenga Oliveira, Maria do Carmo Reis Cavalcanti, Sparsha Sinduri Nagula | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

Brazilian geotechnics plays a key role in the pursuit of safer and environmentally sustainable tailings disposal solutions. From that perspective, this paper outlines the Brazilian academia and industry contributions to the geotechnics of mining tailings, highlighting the main aspects of some recent...
Soil-Atmosphere Interaction In Geotechnics: Some Aspects Concerning Gravitational Soil Mass Movements And Biogas Production And Emissions In Tropical Environment

Tácio Mauro Pereira de Campos, Mariana Ferreira Benessiuti Motta, Nicolas Rodrigues Moura, Elisangela do Prado Oliveira, Álvaro de Freitas Viana, José Camapum de Carvalho, José Fernando Thomé Jucá, Sandro Lemos Machado | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

Soil-atmosphere interactions comprise a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary subject of interest to numerous applied and research knowledge areas. In this work, aspects related to geotechnical, geoenvironmental and geological engineering, not usually considered in applied civil or environmental e...
Environmental Geotechnics: Brazilian Experience And Some Hot Topics

Maria Eugênia Gimenez Boscov, Gemmina Di Emidio, Alexandre de Almeida Prado Ferrari, Paulo Scarano Hemsi, Miriam de Fatima Carvalho Machado, Sandro Lemos Machado, Manoel de Melo Maia Nobre, Rosane Cunha Maia Nobre, Antônio Thomé | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

This paper, in commemoration of 75 years of the Brazilian Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, highlights contributions of Brazilian Geotechnicians to some selected topics of Environmental Geotechnics, i.e., design of municipal solid waste landfills, tropical soils and alternativ...
Collapsible Soils In Argentina: Experiences And Case Histories

Roberto E. Terzariol | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

Argentinean loessial soils are the main deposits of this kind of soil in South America, and cover an area of more than 600,000 km2. They are eolic soils that can preserve their original structure generated when they were deposited (primary loess) or being transported or altered in place (secondary l...
Advancing Transportation Geotechnics Through Digital Technologies

António Gomes Correia, Mohammad Jawed Roshan, Ionut Dragos Moldovan, Joaquim Tinoco, Dominic Owusu-Ansah, Sinem Tola, Manuel Parente, Miguel Azenha | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

The integration of advanced digital technologies is revolutionizing transportation geotechnics, enabling unprecedented achievements in efficiency of design, construction and maintenance contributing to more sustainable infrastructure developments. This paper explores cuttingedge advancements in self...
Gravitational Mass Movements In Brazil: Causes, Consequences, And Solutions

Roberto Quental Coutinho, Mauricio Ehrlich, Marcos Massao Futai, Luiz Antônio Bressani, Willy Alvarenga Lacerda, Bruno Diego de Morais | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

Gravitational mass movements are recurring phenomena in Brazil, causing significant environmental impacts as well as human, social, and economic losses. Data on gravitational mass movement occurrences between 1988 and 2022 recorded 959 events in 16 Brazilian states, resulting in a total of 4,146 vic...
Rock Mechanics: A Retrospective On Its Development And A Perspective On The Evolution Of Research And Applications

Luís Lamas, José Vieira de Lemos | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

This article presents a speculative exercise aimed at anticipating future developments in rock mechanics, both in its application areas and in research. To frame this discussion within the historical evolution of the field, it seemed relevant to first provide a brief retrospective on the emergence o...
Advances In Unsaturated Soils Mechanics And Technology In Brazil

Gilson de F. N. Gitirana Jr., Ana Patrícia Nunes Bandeira, Diones Uiliam Barboza, Fernando A. M. Marinho, José Camapum de Carvalho, Lara Batista Ferreira de Lima, Orêncio Monje Vilar, Sandro Lemos Machado, Wai Ying Yuk Gehling, Washington Peres Núñez | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2025 | DOI/Link | PDF

Unsaturated soils mechanics (USM) and unsaturated soils technology (UST) have been the subject of great interest to Brazilian researchers and practitioners since the inception of the Brazilian Association for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ABMS). This is in great part due to the geotec...
Effective Stress Interpretation Of Direct Simple Shear Tests Using Mohr`s Circle And Finite Element Analyses

Leonardo De Bona Becker | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2026 | DOI/Link | PDF

The direct simple shear (DSS) test is often employed to assess the undrained strength of fine-grained soils or the liquefaction behavior of coarse soils. Effective strength parameters are not derived from it because the state of stress within the specimen is not considered sufficiently well defined ...
Three-Dimensional Geological And Geotechnical Models Constructed By Geostatistical Interpolation

Bruna Catarino Xavier, Marcos Egydio-Silva, Georg Robert Sadowski, Jorge Kazuo Yamamoto | Revista Soils and Rocks | 2026 | DOI/Link | PDF

This paper proposes to construct three-dimensional geological-geotechnical models using the geostatistical interpolation from geomechanics parameters of rocks as lithology and fracturing, plus Rock Designation Quality and Rock Mass Rating classification systems. Generally, the geostatistical interpo...