The problem of changing water conditions is omnipresent in geotechnical engineering. Groundwater is systematically found beneath the Earth's surface..

In western Bucharest, Romania, a land developer initiated a EUR 2.5 million project to construct the city’s first residential building over the..

The problem of analyzing and designing deep foundations is relevant to many civil engineering structures, because we are commonly and frequently..

The newest addition to London’s skyline is the 50-story, mixed-use Principal Tower, adjacent to the city’s financial district. The building’s unusual..

Soil-structure interaction is a crucial aspect for both geotechnical and structural fields. There is always an interaction between a structure and..

Most geotechnical engineers use FEA software packages for their geotechnical design. It is especially useful for performance-based design or in..

In my previous blogs, I discussed various constitutive models for modelling the stress-strain behaviour of soils and rocks. It is important to use an..

Although PLAXIS has its roots in soft soil, it is well equipped for finite element analyses in hard soils and rocks. In addition to dedicated..

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering is a special discipline in our profession. It requires understanding of the terminology and methods that are..

The term ‘soft soil’ is associated with fine-grained soils (mostly normally-consolidated clays). Here in The Netherlands, clays often include organic..