Predicting the pile’s load capacity is one of the first steps of foundation engineering design. In geotechnical engineering, there are different ways of predicting soil resistance, which is one of the main parameters. The pile load test is the most accurate method to predict bearing capacity in foundations, as it is the most accurate due to th...

In this study, a particle-based approach is employed to simulate the fluid flow through single fractures considering detailed geometrical characteristics of the fracture walls at meso-scale. For this purpose, Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) which is an efficient computational fluid dynamic method for simulation of fluid flow in media with grossly irregul...

This study analyses the real applicability of laser scanning techniques to determine bulk densities of fine grained soils. The method, fast and accurate, can be employed both in the field and laboratory. The technique was calibrated with benchmarks and then applied to measure volumes of small samples of a specific silty soil of well-known properties (gr...