...Hongyang Liu; Qiang Luo; Tengfei Wang; Liangwei Jiang; Hongsheng Yang This study develops a novel apparatus to simulate the staged, automatic construction of embankments in geotechnical centrifuges with improved measurement accuracy. Modular test equipment was designed to incorporate...

... then be calculated if runoff is known. However, estimating runoff is often a difficult task in practice. In this study, a runoff measurement method was developed using a collector system set up on a slope of an embankment with lime/cement treated silt. The runoff measurements were compared with the recorded rainfall...

... and depends on many different parameters. To improve design criteria for levees, embankments, and earthen structures, the development of realistic computer models that can simulate the erosion process is necessary. Verification of these computer simulations, as with any simulation, is a necessity...

...DJ White; KL Bergeson In response to recent evidence of poor highway embankment quality caused in part by improper soil identification and placement during construction, field-testing and laboratory analysis were conducted to develop a simple performance-based soil classification system that can...

... at different construction sites of embankments. The measured shear strengths approximate those of large-sized triaxial compression tests on samples with parallel grain-size distributions. The smaller version of this new test has been used successfully for testing sands and clays. For clays, artificially...