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Development of fragility curves for road embankments exposed to perpendicular debris flows
Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2021 Debris flows cause recurrent interruptions and permanent damages in rural road networks, representing significant economic losses. Embankments are road assets frequently exposed to debris flows, especially in mountainous areas.
Natalia Nieto +4 more
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An Analysis of the Use of Mining Waste from Coal Mines in Flood and Road Embankments
EnergiesThis article presents the possibilities of using mining waste from hard coal mines in flood and road embankments. For this reason, the management of mining waste is a very important issue.
Justyna Morman-Wątor, Elżbieta Pilecka
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Case Studies in Construction MaterialsThis paper highlights an issue that has not received much attention which is the use of phosphate waste rock (PWR) in road embankments. This study focuses on the valorization of marly clay and marly limestone lithologies, which are abundant but often ...
Safa Chlahbi +5 more
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Safety-factor dataset for high embankments determined with different analytical methods
Data in Brief, 2021 Slope-stability analysis is one of the parameters in the design of road embankments that the designer must consider in order to ensure stable and safe construction.
Milena Mesa-Lavista +3 more
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Analysis of causes of construction failure of road embankments [PDF]
Biuletyn Wojskowej Akademii Technicznej, 2016 The paper proposes a methodology for conducting the analysis of causes of con-struction failure of road embankments. First of all, it is focused on damaged road embankments, which represent a substantial percentage of this type of failure.
Ryszard Chmielewski, Sylwia Aleksiejuk
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Automated Mapping of Transportation Embankments in Fine-Resolution LiDAR DEMs
Remote Sensing, 2021 Fine-resolution LiDAR DEMs can represent surface features such as road and railway embankments with high fidelity. However, transportation embankments are problematic for several environmental modelling applications, and particularly hydrological ...
Nigel Van Nieuwenhuizen +2 more
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Applied Sciences, 2022 This article provides a comparative knowledge of predicted and measured settlements of road embankments with prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs). The emphasis of this study was to investigate and back-analyse the ratio of horizontal permeability in an ...
Rufaizal Che Mamat +3 more
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Design characteristics of road embankments made of sandy soils [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 Sandy soils are widespread all over the world, including in Uzbekistan, and they are widely used in the construction of highways. Therefore, several regulatory documents have been developed that normalize their design characteristics.
Kayumov A. D. +2 more
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Advances in Civil Engineering, 2021 Increased traffic volume has made it necessary to increase highway capacities by widening embankments and pavements. Differential settlement of foundation consolidation and rational utilization of existing embankments are the main problems encountered in
Xiaobo Xing, Zhenhao Bao, Wei Li
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Acceptable movements of road embankments
Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering, 2020 The stability of slopes and embankments under the influence of static and seismic loads has been the subject of study for many researchers. This paper stands for an attempt to present tolerable move-ments, based on caused damage on slopes of the ...
G.P. Papageorgiou +2 more
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