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 ...

Recent advances in soil mechanics have enhanced our understanding of anchor behaviour and pullout capacity, pivotal factors in ensuring the stability and resilience of both offshore and onshore ...

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 ...