Collapsible soils are generally found in arid and semi-arid regions of the world, which undergo large deformation upon loading and wetting, showing significant decrease in void ratio. These soils are quite spread in Pakistan, ...

Expansive soils undergo swell upon wetting and shrink upon drying, and the roads and the buildings constructed on these foundation soils often undergo differential settlements after certain period of time, which ultimately ...

Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJ&K) is among the most earthquake-prone regions of the world. The 2005 Muzaffarabad earthquake (𝑴𝒘 7.6) resulted in a massive destruction of the infrastructural facilities along with significant ...

Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJ&K) is among the most earthquake-prone regions of the world. The 2005 Muzaffarabad earthquake (𝑴𝒘 7.6) resulted in a massive destruction of the infrastructural facilities along with significant ...

In past thirty years, geosynthetic products have been used extensively in civil engineering applications due to their numerous advantages. The most common type of geosynthetics is geomembrane that is used primary as an ...

Pakistan is water scarce country, so water sector industry is one of the most essential industry in Pakistan and a critical asset in helping the country to face the current and future challenges. The performance of water ...

Pile foundation is one of the most commonly used types of deep foundations provided when the required bearing capacity of the soil is not achieved through shallow foundations. Comparatively, the pile foundation is more ...

A retaining wall is a structure, designed and constructed to resist the lateral earth pressure of soil so that the soil on both sides of it can be retained at different levels, and the examples include gravity wall, piling ...

The expand of cities demanded the increase in construction works, and requirement of good construction sites. The accessible sites with problematic geomaterial became a challenge for geotechnical engineers and different ...

Alkaline and salts affected soils occupy 7.7% of the earth surface (Massoud 1990). These salts are primarily chlorides and sulfates of calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium. The soils exhibit considerable changes in ...