Browsing Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology by UP Author "Gaspar, Tiago Alexandre Valentim"

Browsing Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology by UP Author "Gaspar, Tiago Alexandre Valentim"

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  • Application of unsaturated soil mechanics – two years on 
    Gaspar, Tiago Alexandre Valentim; Vandoorne, Rick; Jacobsz, Schalk Willem; Heymann, Gerhard; Grabe, Petrus Johannes (South African Institution of Civil Engineering, 2021-04)
    In recent years, technological advancements in the field of unsaturated soil mechanics have helped improve understanding in this field for both researchers and engineering practitioners. Gaspar & Jacobsz (2019) ...
  • Brazilian tensile strength test conducted on ductile unsaturated soil samples 
    Gaspar, Tiago Alexandre Valentim; Jacobsz, Schalk Willem (ASTM International, 2021-05)
    The tensile strength of soil is often neglected. Because of the presence of matric suction, unsaturated soils may have substantial tensile strengths with implications for a range of geotechnical problems, such as slope ...
  • Centrifuge modelling of piled foundations in swelling clays 
    Gaspar, Tiago Alexandre Valentim; Jacobsz, Schalk Willem; Smit, G.; Osman, A.S. (Canadian Science Publishing, 2024-01)
    A study aimed towards assessing the variation in shaft capacity of piled foundations in swelling clays is presented. At the clay's in-situ water content, the results of pull-out tests on short-length piles revealed no ...
  • Fly-by-Pi : open source closed-loop control for geotechnical centrifuge testing applications 
    Broekman, Andre; Jacobsz, Schalk Willem; Louw, Hendrik; Kearsley, Elsabe P.; Gaspar, Tiago Alexandre Valentim; Da Silva Burke, Talia Simone (Elsevier, 2020-10)
    Geotechnical centrifuges are valuable instruments for physical modelling of complex geotechnical problems in a controlled laboratory setting. In comparison to full-scale testing, scaled models are cost effective to construct ...
  • Towards the application of unsaturated soil mechanics in practice 
    Gaspar, Tiago Alexandre Valentim; Jacobsz, Schalk Willem (South African Institution of Civil Engineering, 2019-04)
    It has long been recognised that the principles of conventional saturated soil mechanics can be an oversimplification of soil behaviour, particularly in the arid climate of southern Africa. This knowledge has led ...