ACTA GEOTECHNICA

Vol. 3, No.1 Month: March, Year:2008

FOREWORD Special issue “Multiscale Approaches to Geomaterials” Cristian Dascalu, Bernard Cambou RESEARCH PAPER Changing grading of soil: effect on critical states David Muir Wood, Kenichi Maeda From bifurcation to failure in a granular material: a DEM analysis L. Sibille, F.-V. Donzé, F. Nicot, B. Chareyre, F. Da Micro-fracture instabilities in granular solids Gabriela Bilbie, Cristian Dascalu, Rene Chambon, Denis Caillerie Micromechanical approach to unsaturated water flow in structured geomaterials by two-scale computations Adam Szymkiewicz, Jolanta Lewandowska Nonlocal orientational distribution of contact forces in granular samples containing elongated particles H. Magoariec, A. Danescu, B. Cambou New basis for the constitutive modelling of aggregated soils Azad Koliji, Laurent Vulliet, Lyesse Laloui Three-dimensional Cosserat homogenization of masonry structures: elasticity I. Stefanou, J. Sulem, I. Vardoulakis

ASTM GEOTECHNICAL TESTING JOURNAL Volume 31, Issue 3

May 2008 Uniformity of Axial Displacement in Element Testing Kim W, Labuz J, Chadbourn B, Loken M Simple Shear Test for Interfaces Between Core and Filter Soils in Rock-Fill Dams Zhang B, Yu Y, Fu J, Hu L Correlation Between Miniature Cone Tip Resistance and Shear Strength Parameters of Clean and Silty Sand Using a Conventional Triaxial Setup Kumar J, Raju KV Development of a Modified in situ Direct Shear Test Technique to Determine Shear Strength Parameters of Mine Rock Piles Fakhimi A, Boakye K, Sperling DJ, McLemore VT Laboratory Procedure to Obtain Well-Mixed Soil Binder Samples of Medium Stiff to Stiff Expansive Clayey Soil for Deep Soil Mixing Simulation Bhadriraju V, Puppala AJ, Madhyannapu RS, Williammee R Toe-Driven Tapered Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Self-Consolidating Concrete Composite Piles: New High-Performance Technology for Deep Foundations Nehdi M, Sakr M, El Naggar M Modified Fluid Loss Test as an Improved Measure of Hydraulic Conductivity for Bentonite Chung J, Daniel DE Detecting Subsurface Voids Using Ground-Coupled Penetrating Radar Chen DH, Scullion T A New Laboratory Apparatus to Evaluate Hydrodynamic Dispersibility of Soil During Ocean Dumping Yeung AT, Mak MS, Fung IW, Alfred Au SK Measuring “Fast” Shear Strengths Along Slickensided Surfaces in the Bromhead Ring Shear Meehan CL, Brandon TL, Michael Duncan J

CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL JOURNAL

Vol. 45 , No. 3 March, 2008

Hazard analysis of an active slide in the Thompson River Valley, Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada Arash Eshraghian, C. Derek Martin, and Norbert R. Morgenstern Plastic anisotropy of soft reconstituted clays Minna Karstunen and Mirva Koskinen A decision analysis framework for the assessment of likely post-failure velocity of translational and compound natural rock slope landslides James Glastonbury and Robin Fell Controls on the spatial distribution of soil moisture and solute transport in a sloping reclamation cover Chris Kelln, S. Lee Barbour, and Clara Qualizza Anisotropic shear strength of a residual soil of sandstone Adriano Virgilio Damiani Bica, Luiz Antônio Bressani, Diego Vendramin, Flávia Burmeister Martins, Pedro Miguel Vaz Ferreira, and Felipe Gobbi Compression testing and analysis of drilled concrete tapered piles in cohesive-frictional soil M. Kamran Khan, M. Hesham El Naggar, and Mohamed Elkasabgy Performance of gravity caisson on sand compaction piles Chun Fai Leung and Rui Fu Shen Critical state for overconsolidated unsaturated silty soil A. R. Estabragh and A. A. Javadi A novel filtration system for polyethylene glycol solutions used in the osmotic method of controlling suction Pierre Delage and Yu Jun Cui Rate effects from pile shaft resistance measurements Michael John Brown and Adrian Frank Luciano Hyde Seepage force in a drained circular tunnel: An analytical approach Kyung-Ho Park, Joo-Gong Lee, and Adisorn Owatsiriwong Discussion of “A procedure for the design of protective filters” Fernando Delgado and Jose M. Poyatos

Reply to the discussion by Delgado and Poyatos on “A procedure for the design of protective filters” G.L. Sivakumar Babu and Amit Srivastava

CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL JOURNAL

Vol. 45 , No. 4 April, 2008

Equations for the entire soil-water characteristic curve of a volume change soil Hung Q. Pham and Delwyn G. Fredlund Rate-dependent soil behavior in seismic site response analysis Duhee Park and Youssef M.A. Hashash Seismic response of sands in centrifuge tests Mohammad H.T. Rayhani and M. Hesham El Naggar Twenty-ninth Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium: The role of advanced numerical methods and geotechnical field measurements in understanding complex deep-seated rock slope failure mechanisms Erik Eberhardt A new modelling approach for unsaturated soils using independent stress variables Daichao Sheng, Delwyn G. Fredlund, and Antonio Gens Target reliability based design optimization of anchored cantilever sheet pile walls B. Munwar Basha and G. L. Sivakumar Babu Finite element analyses of steep man-made cuts in Dublin boulder clay N. Kovacevic, G. W.E. Miligan, C. O. Menkiti, M. Long, and D. M. Potts Generalized dynamic Winkler model for nonlinear soil–structure interaction analysis Nii Allotey and M. Hesham El Naggar Mode of shear effects on yield and liquefied strength ratios Scott M. Olson and Benjamin B. Mattson Sand–rubber mixtures: Experiments and numerical simulations Julio R. Valdes and T. Matthew Evans

COMPUTERS AND GEOTECHNICS

Vol. 35 , No. 3 May, 2008

Prediction of relative crest settlement of concrete-faced rockfill dams analyzed using an artificial neural network model Yong-Seong Kim, Byung-Tak Kim Response of multilayer geosynthetic-reinforced bed resting on soft soil with stone columns Kousik Deb, Sarvesh Chandra, P.K. Basudhar Inverse analysis techniques for parameter identification in simulation of excavation support systems C. Rechea, S. Levasseur, R. Finno Three-dimensional discontinuous deformation analysis (3-D DDA) using a new contact resolution algorithm S. Amir Reza Beyabanaki, Roozbeh Geraili Mikola, Kianoosh Hatami Theoretical and numerical analyses of pore-fluid flow focused heat transfer around geological faults and large cracks Chongbin Zhao, Bruce E. Hobbs, Alison Ord, Peter Hornby, Hans Mühlhaus, Shenglin Peng Three-dimensional RITSS large displacement finite element method for penetration of foundations into soil L. Yu, J. Liu, X.J. Kong, Y. Hu A numerical solution to seepage problems with complex drainage systems Yifeng Chen, Chuangbing Zhou, Hong Zheng Homogenization of granular material modeled by a three-dimensional discrete element method C. Wellmann, C. Lillie, P. Wriggers Application of a continuum numerical model for pile driving analysis and comparison with a real case Shahram Feizee Masouleh, Kazem Fakharian Support vector machine applied to settlement of shallow foundations on cohesionless soils Pijush Samui A comparative study of various commercially available programs in slope stability analysis

Wael Alkasawneh, Abdallah I. Husein Malkawi, Jamal Hassan Nusairat, Nermeen Albataineh Development and application of a GIS-based tool for earthquake-induced hazard prediction Chang-Guk Sun, Sung-Ho Chun, Tae-Gyun Ha, Choong-Ki Chung, Dong-Soo Kim Dynamic torsional response of an end bearing pile in saturated poroelastic medium Kuihua Wang, Zhiqing Zhang, Chin Jian Leo, Kanghe Xie Slope reliability analysis using a support vector machine Hong-bo Zhao Case-based system for slope design M. Fyson, D.G. Toll A simple mathematical model for soil nail and soil interaction analysis Wan-Huan Zhou, Jian-Hua Yin Three-dimensional analysis of the screening effectiveness of hollow pile barriers for foundation-induced vertical vibration Pei-hsun Tsai, Zheng-yi Feng, Tin-lon Jen Technical Communications : Flow rule effects in the Tresca model H.A. Taiebat, J.P. Carter

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY

Vol. 98, Issues 1-2 21 April 2008

Geotechnical classification and characterisation of materials for stability analyses of large volcanic slopes Rodrigo del Potro, Marcel Hürlimann Resistivity and induced polarization surveys for slope instability studies in the Swiss Alps Laurent Marescot, Régis Monnet, Dominique Chapellier Debris-flow runout predictions based on the average channel slope (ACS) Adam B. Prochaska, Paul M. Santi, Jerry D. Higgins, Susan H. Cannon Moisture spreading in a multi-layer hydraulic sealing system (HTV-1) Franz Königer, Katja Emmerich, Gerhard Kemper, Matthias Gruner, Wolfgang Gaβner, Rolf Nüesch, Rainer Schuhmann Comparison of indicator kriging, conditional indicator simulation and multiple-point statistics used to model slate deposits F.G. Bastante, C. Ordóñez, J. Taboada, J.M. Matías The use of cation packing index for characterizing the weathering degree of granitic rocks S. Ceryan, K. Zorlu, C. Gokceoglu, A. Temel

GEOMECHANICS AND GEOENGINEERING

No new issue published.

GEORISK

ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF RISK FOR ENGINEERED SYSTEMS AND GEOHAZARDS

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GEOSYNTHETICS INTERNATIONAL

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GEOTECHNICAL AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Vol. 26, No.3 June, 2008

Steady State Strength Behavior of Yamuna Sand Sourav De and Prabir Kumar Basudhar Approximate Simple Invertible Equations for Consolidation Curves Under Triangular Excess Pore-water Pressures Sushil K. Singh and Prabhata K. Swamee Performance of Counterfort Walls with Reinforced Granular and Fly Ash Backfills: Experimental Investigation Sutapa Hazra and Nihar Ranjan Patra Quantification of Aperture and Relations Between Aperture, Normal Stress and Fluid Flow for Natural Single Rock Fractures Pinnaduwa H. S. W. Kulatilake, Jinyong Park, Pirahas Balasingam and Robert Morgan Large Rock Avalanches: A Kinematic Model Oscar Marcos Zambrano Analysis of Swelling and Shrinkage Behavior of Compacted Clays Anil Kumar Mishra, Sarita Dhawan and Sudhakar M. Rao Experimental Study of Bearing Capacity of Granular Soils, Reinforced with Innovative Grid-Anchor System Mansour Mosallanezhad, Nader Hataf and Arsalan Ghahramani Finite Element Modeling of Swelling Soil Pressures Using Joint/Interface Elements Ahmet Şenol and Mustafa Aytekin

GEOTECHNIQUE Volume: 58, Issue: 4

April, 2008 Quantifying and modelling fabric anisotropy of granular soils Z. X. Yang, X. S. Li and J. Yang Spatial variation of void ratio and shear band thickness in sand using X-ray computed tomography K. A. Alshibli and A. Hasan Impact of multidirectional shaking on liquefaction potential of level sand deposits D. Su and X. S. Li The influence of previous stress history and stress path direction on the surface settlement trough induced by tunnelling A. Grammatikopoulou, L. Zdravkovic and D. M. Potts Analysis of the shaft resistance of non-displacement piles in sand D. Loukidis and R. Salgado Technical Note : Upper-bound yield envelopes for pipelines at shallow embedment in clay M. F. Randolph and D. J. White

GEOTEXTILES AND GEOMEMBRANES

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GROUND IMPROVEMENT

Volume 161, Issue 2 May 1, 2008

Soil improvement by internally reinforced stone columns Ayadat, Hanna, Hamitouche Eccentricity effect on a footing supported by a stone column Sadek, Shahrour Modelling embankments reinforced with sand columns Sathishbalamurugan, Muhunthan Subgrade modulus of geocell-reinforced sand foundations Dash, Reddy, Raghukanth Ground improvement by small-diameter timber piles Ghosh, Mukherjee, Sahu, Ghosh, Som Uplift of shallow foundations with cement-stabilised backfill Rattley, Lehane, Consoli, Richards

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of ANALYTICAL and NUMERICAL METHODS

in GEOMECHANICS

Vol. 32, No. 6

A new mixed finite element method for poro-elasticity Maria Tchonkova, John Peters, Stein Sture An anisotropic strength criterion for jointed rock masses and its application in wellbore stability analyses X. Chen, Q. Yang, K. B. Qiu, J. L. Feng Numerical modelling of regional faults in land subsidence prediction above gas/oil reservoirs Massimiliano Ferronato, Giuseppe Gambolati, Carlo Janna, Pietro Teatini The domain reduction method for dynamic coupled consolidation problems in geotechnical engineering Stavroula Kontoe, Lidija Zdravkovic, David Potts Three-dimensional nonlinear finite element analysis of pile groups in saturated porous media using a new transmitting boundary Mohammad Reza Maleki Javan, Asadollah Noorzad, Manouchehr Latifi Namin Calculation of vibration transmission over bedrock using a waveguide finite element model A. T. Peplow, S. Finnveden

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of ANALYTICAL and NUMERICAL METHODS in GEOMECHANICS

Vol. 32, No. 7 Analysis of laterally loaded piles with rectangular cross sections embedded in layered soil D. Basu, R. Salgado Skin friction features of drilled CIP piles in sand from pile segment analysis Sungjune Lee, James H. Long Effective stress concept in unsaturated soils: Clarification and validation of a unified framework Mathieu Nuth, Lyesse Laloui Intrinsic poroelasticity constants and a semilinear model A. H.-D. Cheng, Y. Abousleiman A model for stress and plastic strain induced nonlinear hyperelastic anisotropy in soils A. Gajo, D. Bigoni

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of GEOMECHANICS

No new issue published.

JOURNAL OF GEOTECHNICAL & GEOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Vol.134, No.5 Month: May, Year:2008

SPECIAL ISSUE: PERFORMANCE OF GEO-SYSTEMS DURING HURRICANE KATRINA SPECIAL ISSUE EDITOR: John T. Christian Overview of Katrina Special Issue John T. Christian TECHNICAL PAPERS Overview of New Orleans Levee Failures: Lessons Learned and Their Impact on National Levee Design and Assessment G. L. Sills, N. D. Vroman, R. E. Wahl, and N. T. Schwanz Geology of the New Orleans Area and the Canal Levee Failures Joseph B. Dunbar and Louis D. Britsch, III Geologic Conditions Underlying the 2005 17th Street Canal Levee Failure in New Orleans J. D. Rogers, G. P. Boutwell, D. W. Schmitz, D. Karadeniz, C. M. Watkins, A. G. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, and D. Cobos-Roa Development of the New Orleans Flood Protection System prior to Hurricane Katrina J. D. Rogers Levee Erosion by Overtopping in New Orleans during the Katrina Hurricane J.-L. Briaud Pavement Structures Damage Caused by Hurricane Katrina Flooding Zhongjie Zhang, Zhong Wu, Mark Martinez, and Kevin Gaspard Hurricane Katrina Storm Surge Reconnaissance Hermann M. Fritz, Chris Blount, Robert Sokoloski, Justin Singleton, Andrew Fuggle, Brian G. McAdoo, Andrew Moore, Chad Grass, and Banks Tate New Orleans Levee System Performance during Hurricane Katrina: 17th Street Canal and Orleans Canal North Inthuorn Sasanakul, Wipawi Vanadit-Ellis, Michael Sharp, Tarek Abdoun, Javier Ubilla, Scott Steedman, and Kevin Stone Stability of I-Walls in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina

J. Michael Duncan, Thomas L. Brandon, Stephen G. Wright, and Noah Vroman Analysis of the Stability of I-Walls with Gaps between the I-Wall and the Levee Fill Thomas L. Brandon, Stephen G. Wright, and J. Michael Duncan New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. I: Introduction R. B. Seed, R. G. Bea, R. I. Abdelmalak, A. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, G. P. Boutwell, J.-L. Briaud, C. Cheung, D. Cobos-Roa, L. Ehrensing, A. V. Govindasamy, L. F. Harder, Jr., K. S. Inkabi, J. Nicks, J. M. Pestana, J. Porter, K. Rhee, M. F. Riemer, J. D. Rogers, R. Storesund, X. Vera-Grunauer, and J. Wartman New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. II: The Central Region and the Lower Ninth Ward R. B. Seed, R. G. Bea, A. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, G. P. Boutwell, J. D. Bray, C. Cheung, D. Cobos-Roa, L. Ehrensing, L. F. Harder, Jr., J. M. Pestana, M. F. Riemer, J. D. Rogers, R. Storesund, X. Vera-Grunauer, and J. Wartman New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. III: The 17th Street Drainage Canal R. B. Seed, R. G. Bea, A. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, G. P. Boutwell, J. D. Bray, C. Cheung, D. Cobos-Roa, L. F. Harder, Jr., R. E. S. Moss, J. M. Pestana, M. F. Riemer, J. D. Rogers, R. Storesund, X. Vera-Grunauer, and J. Wartman New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. IV: Orleans East Bank (Metro) Protected Basin R. B. Seed, R. G. Bea, A. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, G. P. Boutwell, J. D. Bray, C. Cheung, D. Cobos-Roa, J. Cohen-Waeber, B. D. Collins, L. F. Harder, Jr., R. E. Kayen, J. M. Pestana, M. F. Riemer, J. D. Rogers, R. Storesund, X. Vera-Grunauer, and J. Wartman

SOIL DYNAMICS AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING

Vol.28 No.6 June 2008

Prediction of pile response to lateral spreading by 3-D soil–water coupled dynamic analysis: Shaking in the direction of ground flow M. Cubrinovski, R. Uzuoka, H. Sugita, K. Tokimatsu, M. Sato, K. Ishihara, Y. Tsukamoto, T. Kamata Prediction of pile response to lateral spreading by 3-D soil–water coupled dynamic analysis: Shaking in the direction perpendicular to ground flow R. Uzuoka, M. Cubrinovski, H. Sugita, M. Sato, K. Tokimatsu, N. Sento, M. Kazama, F. Zhang, A. Yashima, F. Oka Numerical simulation of dynamic soil–structure interaction in shaking table testing Dimitris Pitilakis, Matt Dietz, David Muir Wood, Didier Clouteau, Arezou Modaressi Considering dynamic soil structure interaction (SSI) effects on seismic isolation retrofit efficiency and the importance of natural frequency ratio Edward H. Stehmeyer, Dimitris C. Rizos Elastodynamic boundary element formulation employing discontinuous curved elements H.R. Yerli, I.O. Deneme Prediction of response spectra via real-time earthquake measurements Vincenzo Convertito, Iunio Iervolino, Aldo Zollo, Gaetano Manfredi

SOIL DYNAMICS AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING

Vol.28 No.7 July 2008

Seismic parameters characterization at Texcoco lake, Mexico Juan M. Mayoral, Miguel P. Romo, Luis Osorio Measurement of shallow shear wave velocities at a rock site using the ReMi technique A. Pancha, J.G. Anderson, J.N. Louie, S.K. Pullammanappallil Damage-based inelastic response spectra for seismic design incorporating performance considerations Yong Lu, Jianwu Wei Calibration of the specific barrier model to Iranian plateau earthquakes and development of physically based attenuation relationships for Iran H. Zafarani, M. Mousavi, As. Noorzad, A. Ansari Investigation of the dynamic response of rigid footings on tensionless Winkler foundation Ioannis N. Psycharis

SOIL DYNAMICS AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING

Vol.28 No.8 August 2008

Dynamic parameters of structures extracted from ambient vibration measurements: An aid for the seismic vulnerability assessment of existing buildings in moderate seismic hazard regions Clotaire Michel, Philippe Guéguen, Pierre-Yves Bard Dynamic properties and liquefaction resistance of two soil materials in an earthfill dam—Laboratory test results V.C. Xenaki, G.A. Athanasopoulos Response of pendulums to complex input ground motion Vladimir Graizer, Erol Kalkan Seismic site effects by an optimized 2D BE/FE method I. Theory, numerical optimization and application to topographical irregularities B. Gatmiri, C. Arson, K.V. Nguyen Seismic site effects by an optimized 2D BE/FE method II. Quantification of site effects in two-dimensional sedimentary valleys B. Gatmiri, C. Arson Effect of unsupported sleepers on wheel/rail normal load Shuguang Zhang, Xinbiao Xiao, Zefeng Wen, Xuesong Jin

SOILS AND FOUNDATIONS Vol.48 No.2 April 2008

TECHNICAL PAPERS Prediction of Lateral Effective Stresses in Sand Using Artifical Neural Network E. Uncuoglu, M. Laman, A. Saglamer and B. Kara ... 141 Modelling of Ageing Effects on the Elasto-viscoplastic Behaviour of Geomaterial Fumio Tatsuoka, H. Di Benedetto, W. Kongkitkul, L. Kongsukprasert, Takahiko Nishi and Yusuke Sano ... 155 Modelling and Simulation of Rate-dependent Stress-strain Behaviour of Granular Materials in Shear W. Kongkitkul, Fumio Tatsuoka, A. Duttine, Shohei Kawabe, Tadao Enomoto and H. Di Benedetto ... 175 Three-dimensional Creep Analyses of the Leaning Tower of Pisa J. Bai, N. Morgenstern and D. Chan ... 195 Numerical Analysis of Time-Dependent Behaviour for the Leaning Tower of Pisa J. Bai, D. Chan and N. Morgenstern ... 207 Influence of Fabric Orientation to the Permeability and Dynamic Characteristics of Hydraulic-filled Sand C.-J. Jeng, J. C. Li, S.-K. Liu, C.-S. Tseng and Y.-H. Chung ... 221 Unified Modeling of Monotonic and Cyclic Behavior of Interface between Structure and Gravelly Soil G. Zhang and J.-M. Zhang... 231 An Experimental Investigation of a Shallow Skirted Foundation under Compression and Tension H. E. Acosta-Martinez, S. M.Gourvenec and M. F. Randolph ... 247 In-situ Evaluation of Strength and Dilatancy of Sands Based on CPT Results J. Lee, J. Eun, K. Lee, Y. Park and M. Kim ... 255 TECHNICAL REPORT A Case History on Underpinning for a Distressed Building on Hard Residual Soil Underneath Non-uniform Loose Sand S. Horpibulsuk, A. Kumpala and W. Katkan... 267

TECHNICAL NOTE A Method for Received Waveform Reconstruction Baced on Bender Element Test Using Frequency-swept Signal

Toshihiro Ogino, Toshiyuki Mitachi, K. H. Chan, Hiroshi Oikawa and Masaki Tsushima ... 287