Search Results - "Khan, Sadik"
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Proactive Measures for Preventing Highway Embankment Failures on Expansive Soil: Developing an Early Warning Protocol
Published in Applied sciences (01-10-2024)“…Efficient data use for early warnings is a critical component of failure management, which encompasses activities such as vulnerable zone mapping, prediction,…”
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Soil Bioengineering Using Vetiver for Climate-Adaptive Slope Repair: Review
Published in Natural hazards review (01-08-2024)“…AbstractAn increase in precipitation due to climate change has given rise to the number of landslide occurrences. Vetiver, which is a perennial grass, is…”
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Near-Surface Soil Moisture Characterization in Mississippi’s Highway Slopes Using Machine Learning Methods and UAV-Captured Infrared and Optical Images
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-04-2023)“…Near-surface soil moisture content variation is a major factor in the frequent shallow slope failures observed on Mississippi’s highway slopes built on…”
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Impact of Vetiver Plantation on Unsaturated Soil Behavior and Stability of Highway Slope
Published in Geosciences (Basel) (01-05-2024)“…Due to cyclic wetting and drying, the hydro-mechanical behavior of unsaturated soil is impacted significantly. In order to assess the soil strength parameters,…”
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Coupled Effect of Wet-Dry Cycles and Rainfall on Highway Slope Made of Yazoo Clay
Published in Geosciences (Basel) (01-08-2019)“…Expansive Yazoo clay soil is susceptible to volumetric deformation and is dominant in central Mississippi and other neighboring southern states of the United…”
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Greening Roadway Infrastructure with Vetiver Grass to Support Transportation Resilience
Published in CivilEng (01-03-2022)“…With flooding and other weather events intensifying, more cost-effective erosion and flood control systems are needed. Vetiver (Chrysopogon zizanioides (L.)…”
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Climate Resilient Slope Stability Improvement Using Vetiver on a Test Levee
Published in Natural hazards review (01-11-2024)“…AbstractBioinspired slope improvements can achieve outcomes similar to traditional slope improvements for shallow slope failures, while incorporating plant…”
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Combined Effect of Rainfall and Shear Strength on the Stability of Highway Embankments Made of Yazoo Clay in Mississippi
Published in Geotechnical and geological engineering (01-06-2020)“…Shallow slope failure repeatedly occurs in many highway slopes in Mississippi due to the abundance of expansive Yazoo Clay. The highly plastic clay soil…”
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Let's Build the Cities of the Future
Published in New perspectives quarterly (01-07-2015)“…No matter where people reside, the street is the first and last place they visit each day, and the backdrop for everything in between. Whether loved, ignored…”
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The Development of PSO-ANN and BOA-ANN Models for Predicting Matric Suction in Expansive Clay Soil
Published in Mathematics (Basel) (01-08-2022)“…Disasters have different shapes, and one of them is sudden landslides, which can put the safety of highway users at risk and result in crucial economic damage…”
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Development of Soil Moisture Content and Soil Matric Suction Model Based on Field Instrumentation and Electrical Resistivity Imaging (ERI) for Highway Slopes Constructed on High Expansive Clay Soil
Published in Geotechnics (Basel) (01-09-2022)“…In highway slopes (HWS) constructed on high expansive clay soil (HECS), in situ moisture variation is an environmentally driven variable that can significantly…”
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Numerical Investigation of Slope Stabilization Using Recycled Plastic Pins in Yazoo Clay
Published in Infrastructures (Basel) (01-03-2021)“…Geographically, at the center of Mississippi is a concentration of High Plastic Yazoo Clay Soil (HPYCS). Shallow landslides frequently occur in embankments…”
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Geomaterials for Transportation Infrastructures
Published in Infrastructures (Basel) (01-07-2021)“…The American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) quadrennial report card exhibited the grim picture of nation’s transportation infrastructure [...]…”
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Influence of Soil Reinforcement on Horizontal Displacement of MSE Wall
Published in International journal of geomechanics (01-02-2014)“…AbstractMechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls offer simple construction techniques, pleasing aesthetics, and cost-effective solutions as an alternative to…”
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Settlement based load capacity curve for single helix helical pile in c - ϕ soil
Published in Soils and foundations (01-02-2023)“…Helical piles are getting increasingly popular for lightweight engineering applications. Currently, the helical pile is mostly designed with torque capacity;…”
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Evaluation of the Impact of Climate Variability on the Soil-Water Characteristics Curve
Published in Transportation research record (04-05-2024)“…The hydro-mechanical behavior of unsaturated soil, particularly expansive soil, is influenced significantly by cyclic wetting and drying. Understanding the…”
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Safety Prediction Model for Reinforced Highway Slope using a Machine Learning Method
Published in Transportation research record (01-08-2020)“…Recycled plastic pin (RPP) has been proved to be an effective and inexpensive solution for shallow slope stabilization. Current practice suggests conducting…”
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Investigation of a shallow slope failure on expansive clay in Texas
Published in Engineering geology (09-03-2017)“…Highway slopes constructed with highly plastic clay soils undergo shrink-swell cycles during the wet-dry season, which usually soften the soil and may cause…”
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Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity Variation of Expansive Yazoo Clay with Wet-Dry Cycles
Published in Transportation research record (01-10-2021)“…Expansive soils are subjected to shrink-swell behavior with moisture variation in Mississippi, United States. With successive moisture and temperature…”
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