More art than science, earthwork engineering relied heavily on local custom in 1904 when Karl Terzaghi earned an engineering degree in Austria. After supervising a dam project in Croatia and studying ...

When Karl von Terzaghi applied the effective stress principle in the soil mechanics theory, the strength and volumetric behavior of saturated soils could be clearly understood and general constitutive ...

Research into geogrid reinforcement has significantly advanced the understanding and practical application of soil mechanics. Geogrids, high‐strength polymeric grids embedded within soils, serve to ...