Understanding the relationship between plasticity of muddy soil and earth pressure can be crucial to maintaining tunnel stability and predicting ground behavior during earth pressure balance (EPB) ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The ground is wet, the trees are heavy from snow, and the wind will be whipping. It’s the perfect scenario for power outages. The wet, muddy soil soaked by the latest batch of snow is ...

Infrastructures often suffer severe damage due to geotechnical hazards of both natural kinds such as floods or earthquakes and man-made ones like underground construction work and excavations. The ...