Acta Geotechnica No New Issue

ASTM – Geotechnical Testing Journal No New Issue

Canadian Geotechnical Journal Volume 48, Number 2, (February, 2011) Earth pressures on twin positive projecting and induced trench box culverts under high embankments Benjamin L. McGuigan and Arun J. Valsangkar Estimation of soil suction from the soil-water characteristic curve Delwyn G. Fredlund, Daichao Sheng, and Jidong Zhao Evaluation of the impact of pore fluid chemistry on the hydromechanical behavior of claybased sealing materials Sumi Siddiqua, James Blatz, and Greg Siemens Experimental study on the performance of light and dense backfills Sumi Siddiqua, James Blatz, and Greg Siemens Collapse behavior of soil in a Brazilian region affected by a rising water table Orencio Monje Vilar and Roger Augusto Rodrigues Analysis of anchor foundation with root caissons loaded in nonhomogeneous soils Maosong Huang, Chenrong Zhang, Linlong Mu, and Weiming Gong Evaluation of static liquefaction potential of silty sand slopes Poul V. Lade and Jerry A. Yamamuro Consequence factors in the ultimate limit state design of shallow foundations Gordon A. Fenton, D. V. Griffiths, and Olaide O. Ojomo

Computers and Geotechnics No New Issue

Engineering Geology Volume 118, Issues 1-2, (February 2011) Human-induced hydrogeological changes and sinkholes in the coastal gypsum karst of Lesina Marina area (Foggia Province, Italy) M. Dolores Fidelibus, Francisco Gutiérrez, Giuseppe Spilotro Performance of lime-treated silty soil under long-term hydraulic conditions B. Le Runigo, V. Ferber, Y.J. Cui, O. Cuisinier, D. Deneele Collapses of old mines in Korea T. Waltham, H.D. Park, J. Suh, M.H. Yu, H.H. Kwon, K.M. Bang Composite rock slope kinematics at the current Randa instability, Switzerland, based on remote sensing and numerical modeling V. Gischig, F. Amann, J.R. Moore, S. Loew, H. Eisenbeiss, W. Stempfhuber

Geomechanics and Geoengineering No New Issue

Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards No New Issue

Geosynthetics International Volume 18, Issue 1 (Feb, 2011) Best Geosynthetics International Papers for 2008 and 2009 Authors: R.J. Bathurst; J.P. Giroud Effect of short, randomly distributed polypropylene microfibres on shear strength behaviour of soils Authors: I.M.C.F.G. Falorca; M.I.M. Pinto Theoretical elastic solutions for foundations improved by geosynthetic-encased columns Authors: Yiping Zhang; Tao Li; Yang Wang Numerical modelling of surface strip footings resting on double-faced wrap-around vertical reinforced soil walls Authors: S. Anubhav; P.K. Basudhar Enhancement of efficiency of prefabricated vertical drains using surcharge, vacuum and heat preloading Authors: S. Artidteang; D.T. Bergado; J. Saowapakpiboon; N. Teerachaikulpanich; A. Kumar Performance of geocomposite and granular drains under irrigation canal linings Authors: A.A. Khosravi; H. Rahimi; G.H. Eskandari Characterisation of permeability to gas of geosynthetic clay liners in unsaturated conditions Authors: M.J.A. Mendes; P. Pierson; N. Touze-Foltz; H. Mora; E.M. Palmeira

Geotechnical and Geological Engineering Volume 29, Number 1, (January 2011) Technologies of Preventing Coal Mine Water Hazards for Sustainable Development in North China Liu Hanhu and Cao Yunquan A GIS-based Decision Support System for Typhoon Emergency Response in Taiwan Ming-Hsi Hsu, Albert S. Chen, Liang-Chun Chen, Cheng-Shang Lee and Feng-Tyan Lin, et al. An Effective Approach to Rehabilitate Damaged Barrier System Against Piping and Contaminant Flow David Washington, Daniel Rodriguez and Vincent Ogunro Efficient Cable Shovel Excavation in Surface Mines Kwame Awuah-Offei and Samuel Frimpong A Simplified Approach to Bridge Substructure Design Thomas Nicholas, Karl E. Barth and David M. Boyajian Structural Integrity: Key to Reliability of Waste Containment Systems Channagiri V. Char Straw Blankets Sewn With Recycled Plastic Threads for Erosion and Urban Sediments Control Terezinha Cássia de Brito Galvão, Aloisio Rodrigues Pereira, Arnaldo Teixeira Coelho, Paula Rodrigues Pereira and Joaquim Fernandes Teixeira Coelho Changes in Properties of Clay Surrounding Cast in situ Piles G. S. Ghataora, L. Lee and U. K. Ling Laboratory Validation of Ultra-Soft Soil Deformation Model Myint Win Bo, Victor Choa, Kai Sin Wong and Arul Arulrajah On the Evaluation of Settlement Measurements Using Borehole Extensometers Ahmed Bayoumi The Effects of Fines on the Behaviour of a Sand Mixture Ali Firat Cabalar Effects of Testing Conditions on Intact Rock Strength and Variability Widjojo A. Prakoso and Fred H. Kulhawy Simple Shear Behavior of Calcareous and Quartz Sands H. G. Brandes

COMMENTS/DISCUSSIONS AND REPLIES Reply to Discussion of the Technical Note “Seismic Passive Earth Thrust on Retaining Walls with Cohesive Backfills Using Pseudo-Dynamic Approach” by A.H. Shafiee, A. Eskandarinejad, M. Jahanandish: Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, DOI 10.1007/s10706-010-9327-3 A. H. Shafiee, A. Eskandarinejad and M. Jahanandish TECHNICAL NOTE On the Use of Skempton’s Compression Index Equation Snehasis Tripathy and Anil Kumar Mishra Development of a Simple Mechanical Impact System as a Non-Explosive Seismic Source Maochen Ge, H. Reginald Hardy, Hongliang Wang and Jin Wang

Géotechnique Volume 61, Issue 2, (February, 2011) A model for natural soil with bonds W.M. YAN; X.S. LI Effect of relative density and stress level on the bearing capacity of footings on sand D. LOUKIDIS; R. SALGADO Load transfer from a raft to a pile with an interposed layer V. FIORAVANTE Mechanical properties of cemented scrap rubber tyre chips W.Y. TSOI; K.M. LEE A subgrade reaction solution for piles to stabilise landslides F. CAI; K. UGAI Predicting rainfall-induced landslide potential along a mountain road in Taiwan J. CHING; H.-J. LIAO; J.-Y. LEE Consolidation around partially embedded seabed pipelines K. KROST; S.M. GOURVENEC; D.J. WHITE Is the quasi-steady state a real behaviour? A micromechanical perspective J. YANG; B.B. DAI Book review: Specification for tunnelling, 3rd edition. John Coggan Book review: Risk assessment in geotechnical engineering Peter J. Bourne-Webb

Geotextiles and Geomembranes Volume 29, Issue 1, (February 2011) Reinforcement load and deformation mode of geosythetic-reinforced soil walls subjected to seismic loading during service life Huabei Liu, Xiangyu Wang, Erxiang Song Unsaturated soil-geotextile interface behavior Charbel N. Khoury, Gerald A. Miller, Kianoosh Hatami Geosynthetic-encased stone columns: Analytical calculation model Boštjan Pulko, Bojan Majes, Janko Logar Dynamic characterization of EPS geofoam Ossa, M.P. Romo’ Hydro-mechanical behavior of geogrid reinforced soil barriers of landfill cover systems S. Rajesh, B.V.S. Viswanadham Analysis of fluid discharge from a hanging geotextile bag J. Richard Weggel, Jacob Dortch, Douglas Gaffney PVD improvement combined with surcharge and vacuum preloading including simulations J. Saowapakpiboon, D.T. Bergado, P. Voottipruex, L.G. Lam, K. Nakakuma

Ground Improvement No New Issue

International Journal of Geomechanics Volume 11, Issue 1, (January/February 2011) Earth Fissure Formation from the Mechanics of Groundwater Pumping Muniram Budhu Finite Difference Method for Computation of 1D Pollutant Migration through Saturated Homogeneous Soil Media Ritwik Chakraborty and Ambarish Ghosh Uplift Capacity of Axially Loaded Piles in Clays Vishwas N. Khatri and Jyant Kumar Arching in Soils Applied to Inclined Mine Stopes Ching Hung Ting, Sanjay Kumar Shukla, and Nagaratnam Sivakugan Parameter Optimization of Rock Failure Criterion Using Error-in-Variables Approach Sarat Kumar Das and Prabir Kumar Basudhar New Models for Strength and Deformability Parameter Calculation in Rock Masses Using Data-Mining Techniques Tiago Miranda, António Gomes Correia, Manuel Santos, Luís Ribeiro e Sousa, and Paulo Cortez TECHNICAL NOTES Practical Subgrade Model for Improved Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis: Model Development John S. Horvath and Regis J. Colasanti Consolidation of an Anisotropic Compressible Poroelastic Clay Layer by Axisymmetric Surface Loads Sunita Rani, Raman Kumar, and Sarva Jit Singh Numerical Analysis of One-Dimensional Consolidation in Layered Clay Using Interface Boundary Relations in Terms of Infinitesimal Strain Hyeong-Joo Kim and Jose Leo Mission Proposal for Standardization of Pull Tests on Rock Joints Manuel J. A. Leal-Gomes and Carlos Dinis-da-Gama

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics Volume 35, Issue 2 (Feb 2011) Instabilities and bifurcations in geomechanics (page 111) Richard G. Wan Stability in geomechanics, experimental and numerical analyses (pages 112–139) F. Laouafa, F. Prunier, A. Daouadji, H. Al Gali and F. Darve Elastoplastic modelling of diffuse instability response of geomaterials (pages 140–160) R. G. Wan, M. Pinheiro and P. J. Guo Effects of constitutive parameters on strain localization in sands (pages 161–178) Marte Gutierrez Modelling instabilities in triaxial testing on unsaturated soil specimens (pages 179–200) Giuseppe Buscarnera and Roberto Nova Bifurcation analysis for a rate-sensitive, non-associative, three-invariant, isotropic/kinematic hardening cap plasticity model for geomaterials: Part I. Small strain (pages 201–225) R. A. Regueiro and C. D. Foster Modeling of bearing capacity of footings on sand within stochastic micro-polar hypoplasticity (pages 226–243) J. Tejchman and J. Górski An elasto-viscoplastic model for diatomaceous mudstone and numerical simulation of compaction bands (pages 244–263) F. Oka, S. Kimoto, Y. Higo, H. Ohta, T. Sanagawa and T. Kodaka Stress–dilatancy and force chain evolution (pages 264–292) Antoinette Tordesillas, Jingyu Shi and Timothy Tshaikiwsky Rate effects in dense granular materials: Linear stability analysis and the fall of granular columns (pages 293–308) V. Lemiale, H.-B. Mühlhaus, C. Mériaux, L. Moresi and L. Hodkinson

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Volume 137, Issue 2, (February 2011)

Mechanics of Lateral Spreading Observed in a Full-Scale Shake Test R. Dobry, S. Thevanayagam, C. Medina, R. Bethapudi, A. Elgamal, V. Bennett, T. Abdoun, M. Zeghal, U. El Shamy, and V. M. Mercado Fully Probabilistic Framework for Evaluating Excavation-Induced Damage Potential of Adjacent Buildings C. Hsein Juang, Matt Schuster, Chang-Yu Ou, and Kok Kwang Phoon Expanded Reliability-Based Design Approach for Drilled Shafts Yu Wang, Siu-Kui Au, and Fred H. Kulhawy Internal Erosion and Rehabilitation of an Earth-Rock Dam Raúl Flores-Berrones, Martín Ramírez-Reynaga, and Emir José Macari Use of A=0 as a Failure Criterion for Weakly Cemented Soils Christopher D. P. Baxter, M. S. Ravi Sharma, Kathryn Moran, Hans Vaziri, and Raja Narayanasamy Behavior of Cemented Paste Backfill in Two Mine Stopes: Measurements and Modeling Matthew Helinski, Martin Fahey, and Andy Fourie Technical Notes Stability Charts for 3D Failures of Steep Slopes Subjected to Seismic Excitation Radoslaw L. Michalowski and Tabetha Martel Minimum Foundation Mass for Vibration Control A. J. Anyaegbunam

Proceedings of the ICE - Geotechnical Engineering Volume 164, Issue 1, (February 2011) Landslide in the area of the bridge on the Danube in Novi Sad Mitar Djogo; Milinko Vasic Mass behaviour of embedded improved soil raft in an excavation Haibo Yang; Thiam Soon Tan; Chun Fai Leung The increase of wave velocity with time in concrete piles Mingyi Zhang; Junwei Liu Stabilising peat soil with cement and silica fume Behzad Kalantari; Arun Prasad; Bujang B. K. Huat Cavity expansion analysis with non-linear failure criterion Xiao-Li Yang,; Jin-Feng Zou

SOILS AND FOUNDATIONS No New Issue

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering Vol.31, Issue 2, (February, 2011)

Foreword to: Prospects and applications of Earthquake Early Warning for real-time earthquake engineering, risk management and loss mitigation Iunio Iervolino, Aldo Zollo, Mustafa Erdik Earthquake early warning: Concepts, methods and physical grounds Claudio Satriano, Yih-Min Wu, Aldo Zollo, Hiroo Kanamori The operation and performance of Earthquake Early Warnings by the Japan Meteorological Agency Keiji Doi On an earthquake early warning system (EEW) and its applications Yutaka Nakamura, Jun Saita, Tsutomu Sato PRESTo, the earthquake early warning system for Southern Italy: Concepts, capabilities and future perspectives Claudio Satriano, Luca Elia, Claudio Martino, Maria Lancieri, Aldo Zollo, Giovanni Iannaccone The seismic alert system of Mexico (SASMEX): Progress and its current applications J.M. Espinosa-Aranda, A. Cuéllar, F.H. Rodríguez, B. Frontana, G. Ibarrola, R. Islas, A. García Advanced real-time acquisition of the Vrancea earthquake early warning system A. Mărmureanu, C. Ionescu, C.O. Cioflan Istanbul Earthquake Rapid Response System: Methods and practices Karin Sesetyan, Can Zulfikar, Mine Demircioglu, Ufuk Hancilar, Yaver Kamer, Mustafa Erdik An alternative approach for the Istanbul earthquake early warning system Hakan Alcik, Oguz Ozel, Yih-Min Wu, Nurcan M. Ozel, Mustafa Erdik Development of the ElarmS methodology for earthquake early warning: Realtime application in California and offline testing in Japan Holly M. Brown, Richard M. Allen, Margaret Hellweg, Oleg Khainovski, Douglas Neuhauser, Adeline Souf

A new prototype system for earthquake early warning in Taiwan Nai-Chi Hsiao, Yih-Min Wu, Li Zhao, Da-Yi Chen, Wei-Ting Huang, Kuan-Hung Kuo, TzayChyn Shin, Peih-Lin Leu

Performance-based earthquake early warning Iunio Iervolino Intelligent seismic isolation system using air bearings and earthquake early warning Satoshi Fujita, Keisuke Minagawa, Go Tanaka, Haruo Shimosaka Application of an earthquake early warning system and a real-time strong motion monitoring system in emergency response in a high-rise building Tomohiro Kubo, Yoshiaki Hisada, Masahiro Murakami, Fusako Kosuge, Kohei Hamano An examination of τc-Pd earthquake early warning method using a strong-motion building array Jang-Tian Shieh, Yih-Min Wu, Li Zhao, Wei-An Chao, Chien-Fu Wu Rapid earthquake loss assessment after damaging earthquakes M. Erdik, K. Şeşetyan, M.B. Demircioğlu, U. Hancılar, C. Zülfikar Earthquake early warning as a tool for improving society’s resilience and crisis response Paolo Gasparini, Gaetano Manfredi, Jochen Zschau