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Description:: Slow-moving landslides are common in mountainous area worldwide. Most of them mobilizes slowly over long periods of time, which causes continuous damage to proximal infrastructure and habitats. Most notably, some slow-moving landslides can experience catastrophic acceleration at some point in their life cycle, with potentially fatal consequences. It is therefore...
Subject:: Geotechnology and Civil engineering
Creator:: Li, Xiang
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_927309 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16221

Description:: Cyclic loading, from earthquake, has caused the instability and failure of slopes composed of sensitive clays. During the 1964 9.2 moment magnitude (M) earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska, several slopes comprised of Bootlegger Cove Formation (BCF) clays failed during the strong seismic motion. Some researchers have proposed the use of residual...
Keyword:: BCF Clay, Post-Cyclic Shearing, Sensitivity, and Cyclic Loading
Subject:: Geotechnology
Creator:: Colorado Urrea, Gabriel Jaime
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_857877 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15833

Description:: The term compaction band identifies a rich variety of structural features of the Earth's crust that affect formations of sedimentary rocks. The most common definition for compaction band often found in the literature describes them as narrow planar zones of concentrated porosity reduction, which may involve limited to none shear...
Keyword:: Rock Mechanics, Constitutive Modeling, Instability Analysis, and Compaction Band
Subject:: Geophysics, Geotechnology, and Civil engineering
Creator:: SHAHIN, Ghassan
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 01/21/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15067 and etdadmin_upload_739829

Description:: Granular materials are ubiquitous elements of our daily life, representing some of the most manipulated materials on Earth and playing a key role in disparate fields of science and engineering. Considerable research has been performed to explore the factors that impact the mechanical behavior of granular materials. Within this context,...
Keyword:: grain breakage, discrete element modeling, constitutive modeling, X-ray microtomography, subcritical crack growth, and creep
Subject:: Geotechnology and Civil engineering
Creator:: Sohn, Changbum
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_617984 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14408

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