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  • SLOPE STABILITY STUDY OF DHAL - KOHALA ROAD 
    Muhammad Saleem Akhtar (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2008)
    Amongst the northern and mountainous region of Pakistan, Murree - Kohala is considered to be one of the worst slide-affected area. The landslide hazard on the road section Dhal - Kohala has been a cause of great concern ...
  • CHARACTERIZATION AND STABILIZATION OF SUBGRADE SOIL ALONG GUJRANWALA-LAHORE SECTION OF N-5 
    Abdul Qudoos Khan (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2007)
    The pavement subgrade acts as foundation for a pavement structure. The life and performance of a pavement structure is greatly dependent on the strength properties of subgrade layer. It is common for pavement engineers ...
  • EVALUATION OF IN-SITU STRENGTH AND SETTLEMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE 
    Aamir Maqbool (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2007)
    National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) is setting up its campus in sector H-12. The area covered by Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) covers the north western extent of the sector. In view of the scarcity of land ...
  • EVALUATION OF DYNAMIC COMPACTION 
    Sarfraz Ali (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2007)
    Deep Dynamic Compaction (DDC) Technique was used to improve soil bearing capacity in an area located some 65 km west of Islamabad, Pakistan. It was first project in the country where DDC was used for soil improvement. ...
  • SLOPE STABILITY STUDY OF LOWER TOPA TO VILLAGE BAN ROAD 
    MUHAMMAD ADNAN QADIR (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2006)
    The objectives of this endeavor are to study the existing landslides on Lower Topa to village Ban road and evaluate the factors causing the landslides and suggest remedial measures to combat the problem. It is pertinent ...
  • LANDSLIDE HAZARD AND RISK MAPPING OF URBAN MURREE 
    Muhammad Naeemuddin (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2006)
    Landslides are an inherent dilemma of the mountainous areas and have been observed and recorded for several centuries worldwide. Geographically, Murree lies in the southern part of outer or sub Himalayas and is one of the ...
  • SLOPE STABILITY STUDY OF ISLAMABAD – MURREE ROAD 
    Arif Junaid Kareem (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2004)
    Amongst the mountainous region of Pakistan, Murree is considered to be one of the worst slide-affected areas. The landslide hazard in Murree has been a cause of great concern affecting the safety of life and property. ...
  • SLOPE STABILITY STUDY ALONG ABBOTABAD – NATHIAGALI ROAD 
    MUKHTAR AHMED BHATTI (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2006)
    Life and property of the inhabitants of Galiat Area are threatened by various natural hazards like earthquakes, flash floods and landslides etc. Amongst these, the landslides and related failure processes are the most ...
  • SLOPE STABILITY STUDY ALONG MURREE - NATHIAGALI ROAD 
    Imtiaz Ghani (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2004)
    The northern regions of Pakistan have geomorphologically very active mountainous / semi mountainous terrain. Resultantly, population and infrastructure in these areas is vulnerable to hazards like landslides, earthquakes ...
  • SLOPE STABILITY STUDY OF MURREE MUZAFFARBAD ROAD 
    Asadullah (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2004)
    Mountainous landscape is generally prone to landslide hazards; historically landslides have caused extensive damage to human life and infrastructure worldwide. The causes of the landslides can be attributed both to nature ...
  • NYLON GRID AS SOIL REINFORCEMENT IN C-Φ SOILS 
    Muhammad Babar Khan (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2004)
    In this study nylon rope has been considered as soil reinforcement in the form of grid at 6 x 6 inches spacing. To determine the resistance of the ropes under different normal stresses, simulating 2, 4, 6, 8 feet high ...
  • Comparative Study of Interpreted Ultimate Loads of Piles from Pile Load Test Data Using Different Methods of Interpretation and Predicted Loads Using Soil Exploration Reports 
    Syed Javed Hussain (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2000)
    The construction of pile foundation is a sphere in civil engineering in which there may be at the design, Construction, installation and loading stage, a considerable no of factors on which limited data may be available. ...
  • CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF HOEK-BROWN FAILURE CRITERION 
    Yasir Mehmood Ansari (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2020)
    Process of failure in rock mass is extremely complex and engineers have a responsibility to estimate intact rock/rock mass strength and failure properties which define conditions under which failure will occur. If a criterion ...
  • INCORPORATING SIDE RESISTANCE IN 3D STABILITY ANALYSIS OF TRANSLATIONAL LANDSLIDES 
    Khyzer Ahmed Sheikh (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2017)
    Most stability analyses are two dimensional and do not consider 3-D side resistance of the slide mass. Using 3-D analyses makes the stability problem closer to ground conditions and is critical for complex slope geometries. ...
  • STABILIZATION OF LOW PLASTIC AND HIGH PLASTIC SOIL USING TERRAZYME 
    Umar Ali Arshad (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2019)
    Clays being expansive in nature poses a great challenge in civil engineering. When encountered with water they undergo volumetric changes; not only damaging the super structure but also experience a sudden loss in strength ...
  • COMPARISON OF ATTERBERG LIMITS AND SHEAR STRENGTH VALUES AS DETERMINED FROM FALL CONE AND CONVENTIONAL METHODS 
    Muhammad Farjad Sami (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2017)
    Index properties play an important role in classifying soil regarding their engineering properties. To find these properties tests were initially given by Atterberg, and introduced by Terzaghi in soil mechanics. For every ...
  • EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL MODELING OF BEARING CAPACITY OF FOUNDATIONS ON SOFT CLAY STABILIZED WITH GRANULAR MATERIAL 
    Zahra Bashir Malik (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2020)
    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 ...
  • INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURAL RESPONSE OF MAGNETO RHEOLOGICAL ELASTOMER (MRE) BASED MULTI DEGREE OF FREEDOM (MDOF) ISOLATED STRUCTURE UNDER SINUSOIDAL AND EARTHQUAKE EXCITATIONS 
    MUHAMMAD AHSAN TARIQ (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2020)
    Fixed base structures subjected to earthquake forces are prone to problems like attraction of greater forces to structure, amplified accelerations to non-structural components, expensive design for better seismic performance ...
  • COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ROCK CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS 
    Muhammad Abubakr Jamil (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2017)
    During the feasibility and preliminary design stages of a project, when very little detailed information is available on the rock mass and its stress and hydrologic characteristics, the use of a rock mass classification ...
  • INFLUENCE OF PRESSURE RELIEF SHELVES ON THE STABILITY OF RETAINING WALLS WITH COHESIVE BACKFILL 
    Abdul Qader Khan Ghori (NICE, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2020)
    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 ...

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