Floods are one of the most important natural disasters causing extensive loss of life and properties every year all over the world. Occasional tropical or Mansoon rain can produce floods that are sometimes considered as a ...

Stepped gabion spillways have many applications in dam structures, river engineering, and soil conservation works. They are more stable and flexible than their rigid (impervious) counterparts. Moreover, their stilling ...

This article discusses the distribution of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) contamination in soil within areas of the South Pars Gas Complex (S.P.G.C.), located on the northern shore of the Persian Gulf. To assess the ...

It is well known that the plan curvature of curved slopes has an influence on the stability of the slopes.This paper aims to present a method of three-dimensional stability analysis of concave slopes in plan view based on ...

Abstract– The Shahid-Kalantari highway between Urmia and Tabriz cities in Iran, has experienced more than one meter of settlement 7.8 Km east of Urmia city. The soil investigations revealed that the existence of a peaty ...

In this paper, application of stress fields in computation of seismic active lateral forces on retaining walls is considered using the lower bound method of limit analysis. Finding the exact solution of boundary value ...