Soil liquefaction that results in infrastructure damage has long been a point of contention for urban planners and engineers. Accurately predicting the soil liquefaction risk of a region could help ...

The effects of spatial variability of soil properties on the behavior of saturated soil deposits subjected to seismic excitation are analyzed, and their implications on geotechnical design are ...

Effectively engineering infrastructure to protect life and to mitigate the economic, environmental, and social impacts of liquefaction requires the ability to accurately assess the likelihood of ...

If the Bay Area is indeed overdue for the "Big One," as many scientists believe, it's important to know what kind of soil your home is built on. "The most recent scientific study indicates that for ...

One of the major problems in geotechnical engineering is estimating the geomechanical properties of soil materials, for use in modeling. Aside from the measurement induced bias and even within assumed ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

This image shows a sample comparison between the risk map generated by the researchers using AI and the officially published risk map by the Yokohama authorities. The generated risk map incorporates ...