Proceedings of 72nd Canadian Geotechnical Conference (GeoSt. John's 2019)
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Cold Regions Geotechnology
- Modelling embankment temperatures in Arctic highways using thermal modifiers and surface energy balance boundary conditions
Earl Marvin B. De Guzman, Samuel W. Kaluzny, Marolo C. Alfaro, Lukas U. Arenson, Guy Doré - Frost susceptibility of subgrade soil beneath railway tracks: Case Study
M. Roustaei, M.T. Hendry, A. Roghani - Analyses of climatic data to determine the frost penetration depth based on statistical analyses and matching to measured ground temperature profiles
Charlie Harrison, Mark Bancroft - Making Ice Stronger: From the Design of an Aircraft Carrier in WWII to Applications in a Changing Climate
Lawrence Charlebois, Robert Frederking, Thomas Browne - Parameter Variation Analyses of Thermal Properties Used in Ground Temperature Simulations
J. McCaw, G. Siemens - An approach for finite element modeling of one-dimensional thaw consolidation
R.S. Dayarathne, B.C. Hawlader, D.J. Robert - Evaluation of Inclinometer Errors and Their Impacts on Data Accuracy (Case Study: Karkheh Dam & Galabar Dam)
Hussein Ghasemi, Ali A. Mirghasemi - Internal Erosion of Zoned Earthfill Dams and Their Foundations: Commentary on the State-of-Practice
Jonathan Fannin, Maoxin Li - Suction effects on the compressibility and creep of crushable sands
Rodrigo Osses, Carlos Ovalle, Jubert Pineda, Sandra Linero, Stephen Fityus - Preliminary deformation detection of high-fill sections along the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway using UAV photogrammetry
Dylan M.J. Stafford, Earl Marvin B. De Guzman, Samuel W. Kaluzny, Marolo C. Alfaro, Lukas U. Arenson, Guy Doré - Closure and the Long-term Behaviour of Tailings Dams: Using Industry Experience to Fill in the Gaps
Haley L. Schafer, Nicholas A. Beier, Renato Macciotta - Preliminary Design For Seepage Remediation at a Small, Remote Dam – Case Study of Lac La Ronge Dam in Northern Saskatchewan
Ryan Kozun, Allen Kelly, Imteaz Bhuiyan, Jasyn Henry - 3D Geological Modelling as a Tool for Evaluating Foundations – A Case Study for Lower Baker Dam, Washington State, USA
Cam Bartsch, Tony Gilman - Assessment of rapid drawdown of a cofferdam and main dam using a coupled transient seepage-stability model that considers the reservoir level increase, steady-state level duration, and drawdown using actual hydrographic data for a given river
Charlie Harrison, Jaime Villaamil, Keith Ainsley, Rick Berg - Specialty grouting techniques: Technical considerations and applications in Canada
Naresh Gurpersaud, Daniel Lees, Zhong Han - Soil Profiling of Pleistocene Deposits in the Athabasca Oil Sands using SCPTu
Mahmoud Elbanna, Margot Lederman, Joseph Quinn, Scott Martens, Christopher Klassen, Paul Cavanagh, Jason Polak - Construction of the A21 Dike at the Diavik Diamond Mine
Angela Küpper, Joan Roca, Greg Wenger, Gord Stephenson - Influence of Fines Content on Cyclic Resistance through the Critical State Framework
Edouardine-Pascale Ingabire, Lawrence Clelland, Alex Sy, Mason Ghafghazi - Effect of Imperfect Direct Simple Shear Test Boundary Conditions on Calibration of Constitutive Models
Daniel Wai, Mathan V. Manmatharajan, Thamer Yacoub, Mason Ghafghazi - Observations on the effect of strain rate and loading rate on monotonic and cyclic direct simple shear response of reconstituted Fraser River silts
Achala Soysa, Dharma Wijewickreme - Dynamic behaviour of dry sand in simple shear loading at a wide range of normal stresses
Mahmud Al Tarhouni, Bipul Hawlader, Anup Fouzder, Ashutosh Dhar - Evaluation of liquefaction resistance of a silty soil using DSS and TxSS tests
Betegard Jeudy, Mourad Karray, Chekired Mohamed - Determination of the formation properties from Rotary Percussion Drilling data
Zijian Li, Igor Kyzym, Hongyuan Qiu, Stephen Butt - Update on Rock Fill Settlement in a Highway Embankment in Northern Ontario: A Case Study
A. Bom, J.P. Dittrich, A. Varshoi, A.K. De Souza, T. Sangiuliano, K. Ahmad - Numerical investigation of concrete energy pile behavior in Winnipeg using coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical finite element analyses
Alitking Anongphouth, Pooneh Maghoul, Marolo Alfaro - Load testing of large diameter single drilled shaft foundations for the REM project in Montreal
R. Diab, L. D’Amours, D. Zirmi, J. Habib - A Novel Approach for Performance-Based Design of Piles and Shafts under Liquefaction using Coupled Nonlinear Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis
Mohammad (Sasan) Iranpour - A coupled numerical approach for assessing the bearing capacity of an eccentrically loaded foundation on layered cohesionless soil near a slope
Rajib Dey, Muhammad Abdur Rahman, Naveel Islam - Post-seismic settlement mitigation for a building in Richmond, B.C.
Mustapha Zergoun, Ivan River Cruz - Effect of Temperature on Cadmium Sorption in Sand and Clay
Yassaman Babaee, Farhana Chowdhury, Magdalena Krol - Optimization of sewage lagoon systems operations: An investigation into the removal of metals from wastewater
M.K. Addai, E.M. Skordaki, N. Vlachopoulos - Characterization and Environmental Risk Assessment Associated with a Sewage Lagoon Managed by the Canadian Armed Force
J.J-L. Armstrong, E.M. Skordaki, N. Vlachopoulos - Near-Field Thermo-Mechanical Coupled Processes in Host Rocks of High-Level Waste Deep Geological Repositories
Othman Nasir, Gregory Brennan, Won Taek Oh - Influence of pipeline transport on sedimentation and consolidation of flocculated Fluid Fine Tailings (fFFT)
A.A. Aldaeef, P.H. Simms - Discovery of indigenous biosurfactant-producing oil-degrading species from oily tailings ponds waste and its biodegradation ability
N. Saborimanesh, M. Rahimi, C.N. Mulligan - Additional Tools for the Study of Variable Water Content Effects on a Slow-Moving Landslide
K. Sattler, D. Elwood, M.T. Hendry, D. Huntley - Large Scale Flood, Steep Creek, and Landslide-Dam Flood Risk Prioritization in British Columbia, Canada
Kris Holm, Elisa Scordo, Carie-Ann Lau, Rebecca Lee, Mark Zellman, Dave Gauthier, Matthieu Sturzenegger, Marc Olivier Trottier, Matthias Jakob, Cooper Rennie, Alistair Beck, Matthew Buchanan, Brent Beitel - Benefits and challenges of applying GB-InSAR for use in civil projects in Canada, and ways forward
Adam Woods, Michael T. Hendry, Renato Macciotta, Tom Stewart, Julia Marsh - The use and limitations of modern technologies for slow, vegetated landslide monitoring – Chin Coulee Landslide
Evan Deane, Renato Macciotta, Michael Hendry, Chris Gräpel, Roger Skirrow - A useful tool to evaluate the seismic stability of clayey slopes: the spectral pseudo-static approach
Jonathan Mole, Mourad Karray, Marie-Christine Delisle, Pascal Locat, Rémi Mompin, Catherine Ledoux - Assessing landslide deformation using trees in terrestrial lidar data
Megan van Veen, Michael Porter, Matt Lato, Andrew Mitchell, Siobhan Whadcoat, Wim Van Gassen - Prioritization of Slope Stabilization Work on Québec's Road Network
Marie-Christine Delisle, Catherine Ledoux, Bruno Paquet-Bouchard - The estimated economic impacts of prairie landslides in western Canada
Michael Porter, Joel Van Hove, Pete Barlow, Corey Froese, Chris Bunce, Roger Skirrow, Don Lewycky, Peter Bobrowsky - Landslide Susceptibility Mapping for Large Landslides in Saskatchewan
Casey Dowling, Pete Quinn, Matthew Lloyd, Matthew Dipple, Rob McPherson - Engineering Geological Characterization of the 2014 Jure Nepal Landslide: The Future of Interactive Mixed Reality Field Sites, Hazard Identification and Mitigation Through Game Engines
J. Mysiorek, I.E. Onsel, D. Stead, N. Rosser - Railway geohazard risk management: some practical experiences with geohazard warning thresholds
Pete Quinn, Dave Gauthier, Matt Lato, Dominique Sirois - Historical landslides in Canada resulting in fatalities (1771-2018)
Andrée Blais-Stevens - Use of Lightweight Fill Materials for MSE Wall
Daniel Huang, David Fuerth, Abe Choi - Ageing of a Geocomposite Drain used in landfills applications – an initial study
Zoe Zimmerman, Juliana Reinert, R. Kerry Rowe
- A geosynthetic reinforced earth retaining structure to eliminate lateral earth pressure on concrete grade beam walls – a case study
Laxmi Kant Kachhwal, Matthew Dean - Numerical Modeling and Laboratory Validation of Geosynthetic Stabilized Structures
Lois G. Schwarz, Mark H. Wayne - Measurement of Stress in Sand
Carola Vogt-Breyer, Gabriel Sedran, Dieter Stolle, Peijun Guo - Full Scale Foundation Testing of Rammed Aggregate Pier® Supported Foundations in the Toronto Waterfront
A. Drevininkas, G. Creer, D. Olshansky, J. Brown, M. Tigchelaar, B. Metcalfe - Evaluation of liquefaction potential for a dam using combination of traditional and performance based seismic design methods
Hassan Ali, Ali Nasseri-Moghaddam - Geotechnical characterization of igneous saprolite using the Seismic Cone Penetration Test (SCPTu) from a jungle site in South America
Jose Sanchez-Marrou, Hector Barriga-Gallarday, Ingrid Berru-García - Comparative analysis of Hydro-Station liquefaction potential: A case study
Claudine Nackers, Noureddine Ghlamallah, Mourad Karray, Mahmoud N. Hussien, Chekired Mohamed - Geotechnical Characterization of a Glacio-Lacustrine Clay Deposit of the Abitibi Region – Case Study
Michaël Demers Bonin, Marielle Limoges Shaigetz, Nicolas Pépin, Dennis E. Becker, Mourad Karray - Measurements of ground-borne vibrations at two operational wind turbine facilities
J. Kiss, S.J. Boone, J. González-Hurtado, T.A. Newson - Image Analysis Method for Estimating Porosity Distribution of Soilcrete
Adriana Luis, Lijun Deng - The Piezo-electric Ring Actuator technique (P-RAT) – 16 years of progress
Mourad Karray, Guy Lefebvre, Kamal Khayat, Mahmoud N. Hussien, Ahmed Mhenni, Mohamed Ben Romdhane, Siwar Naji, Nancy Soliman, Deyab Gamal El-Dean, Ibrahim Lashin, Michael Ghali, Julien Anglade, Jerome Lapierre, Harlette Tchabacha, Walid Challouf, Yannic Éthier, Dania Elbeggo, Quentin Lecuru, Guillaume Dion - State Parameter Estimation by CPTu Interpretation for Liquefaction Susceptibility – A Comparison of Methods
Matthew Schafer, Matt Dugie, Rosa An, Adrian Wightman - Effect of aggressive solution and soaking on shear strength of marl clay stabilized by co-polymer of vinyl acetate and acrylic esters
Mohammad Reza Golhashem, Sandra Ghavamshirazi - Dynamic properties of silty-sand varying saturation in a cyclic triaxial test
Kunjari Mog, P. Anbazhagan - Prediction of Compressibility Characteristics of In-situ Cohesive Soil using Reconstituted Sample
Md. Kausar Alam, Naveel Islam, Md. Zoynul Abedin, Rajib Dey, Mohammad Shariful Islam - Effect of Fiber Content on the Mechanical Behavior of Fiber-Reinforced Clay
A. Palat, M. Roustaei, M.T. Hendry - Comparison of sedimentary environment and geotechnical properties of Lake Agassiz and Ariake clays for application of Deep Mixing Method
Toshiyuki Himeno, Marolo Alfaro, Takenori Hino - Fundamental mechanism of cement in stabilizing Champlain Sea clay
Moulay Youssef Monsif, Jinyuan Liu, Naresh Gurpersaud - Toward the post-seismic settlement assessment in the laboratory
Aya Bayoumi, Mourad Karray, Chekired Mohamed - Post VSD aided test column characterization of consolidation properties of oil sands tailings
Moir D. Haug, Julian Gan, Mohammad Al-Mamun - Laboratory Method for Determining Thermal Resistivity of a Coarse Aggregate Mixture
Caren Ackley, Bruce Polan, Ali Nasseri-Moghaddam, Charbel Abi-Nahed, Michael Braverman - A laboratory-based study correlating the large-strain static constrained modulus to the small-strain shear modulus for clean sands
Ibrahim Lashin, Michael Ghali, Mourad Karray, Mohamed Chekired - Time-dependent isotache behaviour observed in physical soil-pipe interaction model tests – its practical implications on pipeline performance evaluation
C.K. Wong, R.G. Wan, R.C.K. Wong - Comparison of the Shear Strength Parameters of TDA
Khaled Zahran, Hany El Naggar - Dynamic Properties of Tire-Derived Aggregates
Ahmed Moussa, Hany El Naggar - Shear strength assessment of a well-graded clean sand
Riju Chandra Saha, Ashutosh Sutra Dhar, Bipul Chandra Hawlader - Controlling Risk to Critical Infrastructure during Construction: Seine Riverbank Stabilization at the Branch 1 Aqueduct, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Kyle Hamilton, David Flynn, Bruno Pierre Arpin, Rob Kenyon, Linda McCusker, Jessica McCombe - Numerical modelling of a clay core earth fill dam with and without creep deformation
Irene Olivia Ubay, Marolo Alfaro - Reconstruction of a roadway over an active landslide using lightweight cellular concrete
Allen Veenland, Shane Duval, Brad Dolton, Roger Skirrow - Geotechnical instrumentation of a tangent cast-in-place pile wall in Peace River, Alberta
Luis A. Martinez, Mauricio Pinheiro, Lilianne Landry-Paré, W. Chris Workman - A more accurate way to measure spatial correlation length from CPT data – ARMA models
Brigid Cami, Sina Javankhoshdel, Thamer Yacoub - Landslide Stabilization Using Wick Drain Dewatering of Artesian Groundwater Pressures – Highway 40:30 North of Hinton, Alberta
Ken Froese, Don Proudfoot, Roger Skirrow - Cylindrical shear resistance of helical piles subjected to seismic loads
Gustavo Padros, Richard Schmidt - Calgary Cancer Centre – Design and Construction Challenges for a Deep Excavation and Building Foundations within Lacustrine Clay
David A. Field, Mathew Stenhouse - Subsurface rock interface imaging with the application of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)
Zijian Li, Yingjian Xiao, Rick Pigrim, Justin Royce, Stephen Butt - Calibration of P-Y Curves Using Lateral Load Test Results in Cohesive and Cohesionless Soils for Large Diameter Drilled Shaft
R. Diab, L. D’Amours, D. Zirmi, J. Habib - Alternative to Soldier Pile Walls – Using Anchored HighTensile Steel Mesh for Temporary Excavation Support in an Urban Environment
Tony Gilman, Andi Buechi, Zana Fares Choueiri, Nick Wilson - Pathology of a research error: Coefficient of earth pressure at-rest for cohesionless soils
M. Talesnick, S. Frydman - Prediction of Static Liquefaction Landslides
Abouzar Sadrekarimi - Recent Advanced Constitutive Models for Liquefaction and Cyclic Softening Analysis
Mohammad Zarrabi, Samuel Yniesta - Ground nonlinear dynamic response by considering multi-dimensional seismic site effects
Dana Amini, Behrouz Gatmiri, Pooneh Maghoul - Evaluation of existing constitutive models in nonlinear 1D effective stress ground response analysis
Caroline Bessette, Samuel Yniesta - Challenges in Assessing a Hydraulic Fill Dam Built in the 1920s for Liquefaction and Piping Potential
Thuraisamy Thavaraj, Jonathan Foote, Shihong Wu - Induced Seismicity in Fox Creek, AB: Amplification Function and Foundation Factors
Gennaro Esposito - Shaking table testing of liquefaction potential of cemented paste backfill: Effects of backfill temperature
Imad Alainachi, Mamadou Fall - Temperature dependence of interface shear behavior of cemented paste backfill-rock
Kun Fang, Mamadou Fall - Combining shallow hydrogeological characterization with borehole data for determining hydrofacies in the Valin River paleodelta
Lamine Boumaiza, Alain Rouleau, Pierre A. Cousineau - Reviewing the potential anthropogenic sources of groundwater contamination – Case study of the expanding urban area of Taleza in Algeria
Lamine Boumaiza, Nabil Chabour, Tarek Drias - Hydro-TISAR and Hydro-SEEp – Innovative geophysical techniques for geotechnical and hydrogeological investigations
D. Campos Halas, J.L. Arsenault, B. McClement - Use of a reduced scale physical model of a mine stope for assessing waste rock barricades potential instabilities due to early age pastefill pressure
M. Nujaim, T. Belem, C. Auvray - Development of a waste rock simulation model to mitigate environmental impacts of acid rock drainage
Rebecca R. Hurtubise, Nicholas A. Beier - Saturated-unsaturated numerical modelling of a vertically heterogeneous monolayer cover with an elevated water table: the Manitou site case study
Yves-Dady Botula, Bruno Bussière, Marie Guittonny, Abdelkabir Maqsoud - On the seismic response of tailings dikes constructed with the upstream and center-line methods
A. Jahanbakhshzadeh, Michel Aubertin, S. Yniesta, A. Zafarani - Influence of pore water pressures on the stress state in inclined backfilled stopes
A. Jahanbakhshzadeh, Michel Aubertin, L. Li - Low temperature geothermal resources in the Canadian Shield: The feasibility of using water from flooded mines as an energy source in Northern Quebec
Andrea Morgan, Félix-Antoine Comeau, Jasmin Raymond - The effect of flyash addition on the consolidation properties and shear strength of oil sands fluid fine tailings
Louis K. Kabwe, G. Ward Wilson, Nicholas A. Beier, J. Don Scott - Physical modelling of tailings consolidation near a waste rock inclusion
Faustin Saleh-Mbemba, Michel Aubertin - An assessment of hydrogeological properties of waste rock using infiltration tests and numerical simulations
Vincent Martin, Michel Aubertin, Geneviève Lessard - Runoff and infiltration estimates based on pore pressure changes in shallow aquitards
Amirhossein Shafaei, François Duhaime, Michel Baraër, Vahid Marefat - Évaluation du potentiel de séquestration des métaux lourds contenus dans des pulpes de résidus miniers par les polymères superabsorbants (PSA)
Nor el-hoda Addi, Abdelkabir Maqsoud, Tikou Belem, Mamert Mbonimpa, Khadija El Mahboub, Lotiyé Élisée Poudama, Cyrille Ngandu Kabamba - Volumetric change measurement for Cemented Paste Backfill under high isotropic compression: laboratory challenges and tips
Mohammadamin Jafari, Mohammad Shahsavari, Murray Grabinsky - Lime stabilization of soil-sludge mixtures for a potential use in oxygen barrier for mine site rehabilitation
Ousseynou Kanteye, Mamert Mbonimpa, Lansana Diane, Tikou Belem, Abdelkabir Maqsoud - Groundwater Occurrence at, and Advanced Dewatering of, a Geologically Complex Orebody at the Iron Ore Company of Canada Open Pit Mine in Subarctic Labrador Canada
Patrick Moran - Optimization of superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) dosage for dewatering mine tailings slurry
C.N. Kabamba, T. Belem, M. Mbonimpa, A. Maqsoud, Khadija El Mahboub, Lotiyé Élisée Poudama, Nor el-hoda Addi, J.F. Lemay - Assessment of the influence of aqueous solutions chemistry on the water absorbency of recycled superabsorbent polymers
Lotiyé Elisée Poudama, Shyaka Auguste Rwamurinda, Mamert Mbonimpa, Tikou Belem, Abdelkabir Maqsoud, Khadija El Mahboub, Cyrille Ngandu Kabamba, Nor el-hoda Addi, Jean-François Lemay - Hydrogeological properties of geosynthetic clay liners (GCL) permeated with synthetic acid mine drainage
N. Cheve, B. Bussière - Structuration in natural clays, dredged sediments, and oil sands tailings
Narges Gheisari, Muhammad Salam, Shunchao Qi, Paul Simms - Creep and structuration in centrifuge cake oil sands tailings
D. Igbinedion, M. Salam, P.H. Simms - A deviatoric softening law for predicting the deformation of soft clays subject to anisotropic consolidation
Cong Shi, Jinyuan Liu, Tareq Salloum, Laifa Cao - Use of Particulate Mechanics Concept in Characterizing Soil and Crop Residue Interaction in Tillage
Joash Bryan Adajar, Marolo Alfaro, Ying Chen - 3D Simulation of Packing of Heterogeneous Ellipsoidal Particles using Discrete Element Method
Elham Kheradmand, Serge Prudhomme, Marc Laforest, Mohamed Chekired, Varvara Roubtsova - Numerical Modeling of High Embankment Built on Soft Soil
Alaeddine Saab, Hany El Naggar - A Numerical Study of the Effects of Contact Friction on CPT Results
Mohammad Mozaffari, Mason Ghafghazi - Modifying the NorSand soil model to improve static simple shear behaviour predictions
Vincent Castonguay, Jean-Marie Konrad - Numerical modelling of downward progressive failure in sensitive clays: the case of the 1976 landslide at Saint-Fabien, Québec
F. Tremblay-Auger, Ariane Locat, S. Leroueil, D. Demers - Modeling the Impact of Earthquake-Induced Sensitive Clay Landslide on an Exposed Pipeline Using a Large Deformation Finite Element Method
Naveel Islam, Kshama Roy, Bipul Hawlader - Modeling of seepage using a Eulerian-based finite element method
Jin Chen, Bipul Hawlader, Chen Wang, Kshama Roy, Kenton Pike - Influence of surficial crusts on the development of spreads and flows in Eastern Canadian sensitive clays
Didier Perret, Julie Therrien, Pascal Locat, Denis Demers - The energy reduction factor for flowslides: a new parameter to assess the energy used for landslide-tsunami initiation
Dominique Turmel, Ariane Locat, Jacques Locat - Application of Random Set Finite Difference Method into a deep urban excavation
Seyedmehdi Poor moosavian, Won Taek Oh, Othman Nasir - Designing of Deep Foundation Systems for Offshore and Onshore Facilities – Similarities and Dissimilarities
Hafeez Baba, Henri Sangam - The Influence of Slug Characteristics on Oscillation of Steel Catenary Risers in the Non-Linear Hysteretic Seabed
Xiaoyu Dong, Hodjat Shiri - Analytical Modeling of Well-Conductor Seabed Interaction in Complex Layered Soil in Newfoundland Offshore
Etido Gideon Akpan, Xiaoyu Dong, Mohammad Javad Moharrami, Hodjat Shiri - Analytical assessment of the drilling risers stability in the Newfoundland deep offshore
Etido Gideon Akpan, Xiaoyu Dong, Mohammad Javad Moharrami, Hodjat Shiri - Formulation of 3D Soil Springs for Pipe Stress Analyses
John Barrett, Ryan Phillips - Some Geotechnical Aspects of Land-to-Sea Transition Zones
M.A.J. (Fred) Matich, Jim Scott - Behavior of Circular and Square Monopile Structures Installed in Normally Consolidated Clays
Behrang Pedram - Use of micropiles in Southern Ontario
Laifa Cao, Scott Peaker - Pile Driving Effects on a Steel Truss Railway Bridge During Rehabilitation
Jon Osback - Comparative study of several methods of axial design of piles located in a thick clay deposit: Pierre-de-Saurel wind farm case
Merouane Menaa, Noureddine Ghlamallah - Correlation between the PDA-Derived Pile Side Resistance and Undrained Shear Strength of Clays in Alberta
Markus Jesswein, Jinyuan Liu, Hamid Batenipour - Capacity of driven precast prestressed concrete hexagonal piles: a Winnipeg region geotechnical study
Ryan Belbas, Ken Skaftfeld, James Blatz - Integrity testing of concrete deep foundation with focus on thermal methods
Simon Gudina - A modern approach to the design of driven precastprestressed concrete piles in Winnipeg
James R. Bartz, James A. Blatz - 1g model tests of vertically loaded GFRP piles
Ahmed Almallah, Hany El Naggar, Pedram Sadeghian - Finite element modeling of jacked piles in clay and loose sand
Ripon Karmaker, Bipul Hawlader, Chen Wang - Seismic Performance Of Hollow Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Piles in Cohesionless Soils
M.A. Hosseini, M.T. Rayhani - Considerations for Resistance Factor Calibration in the National Building Code of Canada
Farzaneh Naghibi, Gordon A. Fenton - A study on the effects of slope grade on the soil-pipeline interaction loading
Mohammad Katebi, Pooneh Maghoul, James Blatz, Dharma Wijewickreme, Kshama Roy - Pulling rate effects on the pullout force of buried small diameter MDPE pipe in loose sand
Auchib Reza, Ashutosh Sutra Dhar, Mujib Rahman, Lalinda Weerasekara - Framework for Assessing Integrity of Natural Gas Distribution Pipes in Landslide Areas
Lalinda Weerasekara, Mujib Rahman - Assessment of Stress Intensity Factor for buried cast iron pipeline using finite element analysis
Suborno Debnath, Ashutosh Sutra Dhar - A Suggested Soil And/Or Rock To Pipeline Landslide Interaction Classification System
Doug Dewar - Some aspects of offshore pipeline design against upheaval buckling
Rabindra Subedi, Bipul Hawlader, Ashutosh Dhar - Reliability-based design cost optimization of laterally loaded drilled shafts considering spatial variability of clays
Zhe Luo, Zhongyang Wu - Equations to Correct SPT-N Values Obtained from Using Non-Standard Hammer Weight – Part II
K.R. Khater, G.E. Abdelrahman, M. Abdel-Baset - Case Study: Installation of a Soil-Cement-Bentonite Groundwater Cutoff Wall in Argentia, NL
Nathan Coughenour, Daniel Ruffing - Case study: Design-build of a cement-bentonite groundwater cutoff wall in Fort-McMurray
Nathan Coughenour, Daniel Ruffing, Steve Artman - Correlations between Low and High Strain Stiffnesses of few Natural and Artificial Cohesive Soils
Saeed Ahmad, M. Hesham El Naggar, Aly Ahmed, Deyab Gamal El-Dean - Conventional method to estimate settlement of plate subjected to bi-axial loading – Part I
K.R. Khater, G.E. Abdelrahman, M. Abouzied - Distorted Bounding Surface of Clay with Consideration of the Effect of Temperature on Shearing Response
Sang Inn Woo, Chan-Young Yune - Field Axial Testing of Screw Micropiles in Sand and SPT-based Estimation Method
Mujtaba Khidri, Lijun Deng - Geomechanics Study of Ore and Host Rocks for Narrow Vein Mining
Yingjian Xiao, Stephen Butt - An analytical parametric study of lateral pipeline-soil interaction in partially embedded pipelines
Heidi Coish, Nicole Chan, Hodjat Shiri - An analytical parametric study of uplifting resistance in buried pipelines
William Allen, Sam Leawood, Hodjat Shiri - An analytical parametric study of pipeline embedment into the seabed
Quinn Snook, Ryan Gregory, Hodjat Shiri - Evaluation of the costs and benefits of natural and grey infrastructures for the protection of the Lake Erie shoreline
Zhe Luo, Deborah Beck, Scudder D. Mackey - Application of LiDAR technology for the assessment of mechanical scaling conditions in underground mines and tunnels
Jonathan D. Aubertin, D. Jean Hutchinson, Mark S. Diederichs - Use of routine geotechnical investigation reports
Prapote Boonsinsuk - Hogg’s Hollow Highway 401 Bridge Widening, Toronto, Canada
Zuhtu Ozden, Minkyung Kwak - York Region mining project’s geotechnical and hydrogeological challenges overcome through the project design
Tamara Kondrachova, Susan Hansler - A comparison between free-field shear strain profiles using natural and synthetic earthquake motions in a case study
Naemeh Naghavi, Reza Moghaddam, Dave Walters, Geoffrey Creer - Cofferdam Failure - Geotechnical Lesson Learned
Silvana Micic, Stan Gonsalves, TaeChul Kim - Physical Models for Experiential Learning in Geotechnical Engineering
Federico Fernández - Using a limit states approach for ice road design
Samuel A. Proskin, Al Fitzgerald - Settlement Analysis on Glacio-Lacustrine Clays using Observational Method for a New Interchange in Winnipeg, Manitoba
David Kurz, Prokopi Papadimitropoulos, Jeffrey Barrett - Innovative Tunneling in the Norris Cut Channel
Bernard Theron, Bernard Catalano, Eloy Ramos - When the Layer-Cake Bites Back: Tunnelling Challenges in Sedimentary Rock
Mark S. Diederichs - Statistical Correlations between effective angle of internal friction (?’) and SPT- N value for cohesive glacial tills
Kanagaratnam Balachandran, Laifa Cao - Reliability-Based Design for the Serviceability Limit State of Axially-Loaded Driven Piles in Ontario Soils
Markus Jesswein, Jinyuan Liu, Minkyung Kwak - General probabilistic analysis of simple reinforced slopes using RLEM approach
Pouya Dastpak, Sobhan Mousavi, Reza Jamshidi Chenari, Brigid Cami, Sina Javankhoshdel - Some mathematical musings about extreme events for geotechnical risk, without (much of) the math
Pete Quinn - A simple approach for probabilistic internal stability analysis and design of reinforced soil walls
Richard J. Bathurst, Nezam Bozorgzadeh - The Influence of Asperities, Joint Topology and Stress on Fracture Geomechanical Properties
T.R. Packulak, M.T. Ahmed Labeid, D.A. Bonneau, Mark S. Diederichs, D. Jean Hutchinson, J.J. Day - Determining the most representative parameter for quantifying the rock block size used for evaluating the hydraulic erodibility of rock
Lamine Boumaiza, Ali Saeidi, Marco Quirion - The impact of a salt deposit’s origin on its exploitation: three case-studies from underground mining operations
Jonathan D. Aubertin, Stefan Hoentzsch, Mark S. Diederichs, D. Jean Hutchinson - An Analytical Solution for Deformation of Underground Openings Excavated in Fractured Rocks
Amir R. Khoshboresh - Rock slope stability and snow disposal capacity optimization, St-Michel Quarry, City of Montréal
André J. Rancourt, Ghislain Dionne, Pierre Marcoux, Benjamin Pugi, Alberto Cardenas - The axial response of fully grouted rock bolts using a distributed fiber optic sensor technique
Tyler O’Connor, Bradley Forbes, Nicholas Vlachopoulos, Mark S. Diederichs - Ageing of cement grouted joint by water and acidic flows for assessing dam foundation quality
Nicolas Néron, Patrice Rivard - Longitudinal Displacement Profiles for Convergence-Confinement Analysis of Excavations: Applicability to Tunnelling, Limitations and Current Advancement
Nicholas Vlachopoulos, Ya Su - Statistical Analysis of the Q-system in Different Tunnelling Conditions
R.A. Ziebarth, A.G. Corkum - On the evaluation of JRC effect on the shear strength of rock joints: reverse modelling of rock joints using a geostatistical semivariogram model and 3D printing
Ghasem Shams, Patrice Rivard - Impact of sample selection on unconfined compressive laboratory test results in hydrothermally veined rocks
Matthew D. Clark, Jennifer J. Day - Hazard identification, stability assessment and risk mitigation overview of near-surface openings and pillars at the former Mine Principale, in Chibougamau, Quebec
Eliane Cabot, Adam Coulson, James Tod, Scott McNicoll, Simon Delattre, Henrik Rasmussen, Carl Gauthier - Investigation of Drilling Performance in Core Bit Drilling using passive-Vibration Assisted Rotary Drilling (p-VARD) Technology
Md. Shaheen Shah, Yingjian Xiao, Stephen Butt - Empirical Procedure Investigation for Sandstone Anisotropy Evaluation: Part I
Abdelsalam Abugharara, Stephen Butt, John Molgaard, Charles Hurich - Empirical Procedure Investigation for Sandstone Anisotropy Evaluation: Part II
Abdelsalam Abugharara, Stephen Butt, John Molgaard, Charles Hurich - Investigation of Hole Widening Drilling Using Cutting Analysis
Daiyan Ahmed, Yingjian Xiao, Jeronimo de Moura Jr., Stephen Butt - Accounting for intrablock structures at rockmass and laboratory specimen scales
Matthew D. Clark, Jennifer J. Day - Development and testing of the CMIN-BCM for monitoring borehole closure in underground environments
Steven Gaines, Ken Judge, Denis Labrie - Geotechnical, Geophysical and Hydrogeological Characterization of Soft Sensitive Leda Clay in Ottawa and Associated Challenges in Foundation Seismic Design
Farbod Saadat, Shane Dunstan - Experimental observation of a soft clay consolidation behavior using constant-rate-of-strain (CRS) test
Emad Maleksaeedi, Mourad Karray, Mathieu Nuth - Evaluating the feasibility of using guanidinium salts as a means of in-situ soil strengthening
Adam Leik, Ian Fleming, Chi Pu - Unconfined compression strength as consistency index for compacted clay in construction – a statistical approach
C.K. Wong, R.G. Wan, R.C.K. Wong - Interpretation and analysis of a test embankment on soft clay
M. Etezad, B. Riddell, K. Bocking, D. Becker, A. Hamdani, P. Buchanan, F. DaSilva - Improving ground heat exchangers for geothermal heat pump systems with a groundwater-filled borehole and a thermally enhanced double U-pipe
Jasmin Raymond, Jean-Marc Ballard, Claude Hugo Koubikana Pambou, Patrice Kwemo, Jean-François Lavoie - Energy-Based Design of Sustainable Earthworks Compaction
Federico Fernández, Brent MacDonald - Thermo-mechanical performance of a geothermal pile system for re-harvesting the energy loss through the basement of a building in cold regions
Maryam Saaly, Pooneh Maghoul, Hartmut M. Holländer - The application of horizontal geothermal systems in Gillam (Manitoba): a case study
Marziyeh Fathalkhani, Hartmut Holländer, Pooneh Maghoul, Rob Sinclair - Performance of ground-source heat pump systems in cold regions: a case study
Ali Fatolahzadeh, Hartmut Holländer, Pooneh Maghoul, Rob Sinclair - Foamed Glass Aggregate Lightweight Fill Over Compressible Soils
Theresa Andrejack Loux, Archie Filshill, Zepeng Zhang - William R. Bennett bridge – Ten years of performance monitoring
(Uthaya) M. Uthayakumar, Susan Balogh - Highway 27:10 – Replacement of Red Deer River Bridge East of Morrin, Alberta: Abutment Stability Pile Wall
Stephen Coulter, Donald Proudfoot, Malika Ali, Yingyi Li - Construction and Post-Construction Deformations of an MSE Wall using Terrestrial Laser Scanning
Devon Adamson, Marolo Alfaro, James Blatz - Use of an Innovative Technology for Measuring Surface Roughness of Pavement
Prajwol Tamrakar, Mark H. Wayne, Kris Broadhead - Stabilization of Rail Track Bed Mile 9.0 – 9.1, CN, Dundas Subdivision
Colin Alston, Mario Ruel - Remediation of Slope Failure in the Application of Lightweight Fill and Timber Piles on Highway 17 in Ontario
Tae C. Kim, Silvana Micic, Stan Gonsalves, Ken Ahmad - Consolidation Behaviour of Colluvium Derived from Overconsolidated Glaciolacustrine Deposits Under Highway Embankment Fills
D.M. Devonald, A.D. Mitchell, J.L. Stirling, S.D. McDougall, H. Evensen - Dynamic Poroelasticity Based Method for Falling Weight Deflectometer Test Analysis
Hongwei Liu, Pooneh Maghoul, Ahmed Shalaby - A poromechanics approach to assess the effect of frost heave on double-barrel culverts in cold regions
Hongwei Liu, Pooneh Maghoul, Ahmed Shalaby, Amir Khatibi - Extraction of depth to bedrock from airborne electromagnetic data using artificial neural networks
A.A. Pfaffhuber, A.O. Lysdahl, C. Christensen, M. Vöge, H. Kjennbakken, J. Mykland - Construction of a Multi-Use Pathway on Soft Compressible Deposits– Case Study
Vasantha Wijeyakulasuriya, Ron Trewin, Ramon Miranda, Oliha Franklin - Construction of Road Embankment over Priddis Slough Using Wick Drains and Preloading
Martin Lun, Charles Kwok, Dat Tran, George Vayali
Dams and Embankments
Dynamic Properties of Soil
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