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It is envisaged that flood plains will be put into more active usage to meet the increasing demands for road infrastructural development as well as relieve the pressure exerted on arable lands owing to infrastructural development activities. This is consequent upon the general s…

Geosynthetic-reinforced load transfer platforms (GRLTP) are constructed at the base of column-supported embankments to efficiently distribute embankment and live loads onto the columns supporting the embankment. There are currently four major design methods for engineers to choo…

This thesis examines selected issues related to the performance of earthfill embankments constructed on soft clay foundations. The primary objectives of the thesis are: to extend an existing elastic-viscoplastic (EVP) constitutive model to describe the influence of micro-structu…