- The May 25th 2011 Railroad Embankment Failure in Ann Arbor, Michigan, As a Means for Teaching Geotechnical Engineer
- Dimitrios Zekkos ; Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos ; Athena Grizi ; William Greenwood
- Book Title / Journal: International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories
- Year: 2016 , Volume: 3
- Slope Stability Analysis ; Site Characterization & In-situ Testing (General) ; Seepage ; Railway Geotechnics
- Keywords: Education ; Embankment ; stability ; Seepage ; railroad ; site characterization
- Abstract
A 30-m long railroad embankment failure that occurred on May 25 2011 in the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan, is presented. Emphasis is given on the field observations of the failure, the characterization of the site conditions and the seepage and slope stability analyses, all of which represent important components of the training and practice of a geotechnical engineer. The failure occurred following a record wet season that resulted in ponding water against the embankment and high enough water pressures and exit gradients that resulted in instability of the railroad embankment. Detailed background material and the methodology for using the case history in geotechnical engineering education are presented. PDF |
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- S.K. Navaratnarajah ; B. Indraratna ; S. Nimbalkar
- ICGE Colombo 2015
- Year: 2015
- Railway Geotechnics ; Stabilization ; Laboratory Testing
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- T Muttuvel ; N Sasiharan
- ICGE Colombo 2015
- Year: 2015
- Railway Geotechnics ; Finite Element / Finite Difference
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- F. Lopez-Caballero ; S. Costa d’Aguiar ; V. Alves-Fernandes
- Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris, September 2-6 2013
- Year: 2013
- Railway Geotechnics ; Numerical & Constitutive Modeling
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- J.-F. Mosser ; C. Cojean ; L. Briançon ; S. Costa d’Aguiar ; A. Robinet ; N. Calon
- Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris, September 2-6 2013
- Year: 2013
- Railway Geotechnics ; Ground Improvement
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- D. Christie ; T. Neville ; C. Rujikiatkamjorn ; S. Nimbalkar ; B. Indraratna
- Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris, September 2-6 2013
- Year: 2013
- Railway Geotechnics ; Geosynthetics for Reinforcement ; Laboratory Testing ; Instrumentation
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- S. Chandra ; B. Mohanty
- Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris, September 2-6 2013
- Year: 2013
- Railway Geotechnics
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- J.-B. Néel ; C. Girier-Bichon ; V. Talfumière
- Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris, September 2-6 2013
- Year: 2013
- Railway Geotechnics
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- Interpretation of pullout tests of high adherence steel reinforcements in a Reinforced Earth® structure under a cyclic dynamic loadin
- N. Freitag ; L. Soyez ; Y. Bennani
- Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris, September 2-6 2013
- Year: 2013
- Soil Structure Interaction ; Numerical & Constitutive Modeling ; Railway Geotechnics
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- W. Maekelberg ; K. Haelterman ; G. Van-Alboom ; L. De-Vos
- Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris, September 2-6 2013
- Year: 2013
- Railway Geotechnics ; Deep Excavations
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- P.K. Thakur ; B. Indraratna ; J.S. Vinod
- 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Alexandria)
- Year: 2009
- Railway Geotechnics ; Discrete Element
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- G.R. Rozenvasser ; V.E. Symonovych ; V.N. Tokovenko ; Yu.N. Gavrilenko ; V.F. Shatalov
- 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Alexandria)
- Year: 2009
- Railway Geotechnics ; Underground Structures ; Tunneling
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- J. Mansikkamäki ; T. Länsivaara
- 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Alexandria)
- Year: 2009
- Railway Geotechnics ; Finite Element / Finite Difference ; Numerical & Constitutive Modeling
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- Renforcement du sol support d'une voie ferroviaire existante par des colonnes de sol-ciment
- Kouby A. Le ; E. Bourgeois ; F. Rocher-Lacoste
- 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Alexandria)
- Year: 2009
- Ground Improvement ; Instrumentation ; Railway Geotechnics
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- High response rate piezometer and its application at a high-speed railway site
- E.S. Aw ; J.T. Germaine ; A.J. Whittle
- 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Alexandria)
- Year: 2009
- Railway Geotechnics ; Instrumentation
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