Geotechnical Engineering in the XXICentury: Lessons learned and future

challengesProceedings of the XVI Pan-American Conference on SoilMechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (XVI PCSMGE),

17-20 November 2019, Cancun, Mexico

Part 1

Edited by

Norma Patricia Lopez-AcostaInstituto de Ingenieria UNAM, Mexico

Eduardo Martinez-HernandezInstituto de Ingenieria UNAM, Mexico

Alejandra Liliana Espinosa-SantiagoInstituto de Ingenieria UNAM, Mexico

José Alfredo Mendoza-PromotorInstituto de Ingenieria UNAM, Mexico

Alexandra Ossa LopezInstituto de Ingenieria UNAM, Mexico

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ContentsPreface

Norma Patricia Löpez Acosta, Alexandra Ossa Löpezand Walter I. Paniagua Zavala

Conference Organization

Proceedings of the XVI Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics andGeotechnical Engineering (XVI PCSMGE)

Part 1

Technical Session S1 — Laboratory and in situ Testing

Determinación del coeficiente de permeabilidad de jales en un permeámetrode carga constante y pared flexible

María Elena Acevedo Valle and Osvaldo Flores Castrellón

Validación de parámetros para el ensayo de consolidación a velocidad constantede deformaciôn “CRS” para suelos de Cochabamba-Bolivia C

Franz Pablo Antezana López and Abel Cruz Chuquichambi

Mapeamento geoestatístico do Nspr na área urbana de FredericoWestphalen/RS — Brasil D^

Jodo Anténio Riboli, Thais Aquino dos Santosand Tiago Alberto da Silva Pereira

Caracterización fisica, mineralogica y mecánica del suelo en el campoexperimental de la UFRGS — Araquari, SC

Laura Vanessa Araque Lavalle and Fernando Schnaid

Impact of Shear Modulus on Maximum Allowable Pressures in HDD ^"Alp Balcay and Tugce Baser

Laboratory Determination of the Viscosity of Soils for Debris Flow Analysis UTCarlos Besso and Tácio Mauro Pereira de Campos

Shear Strength of a Sand Under Plane Strain ConditionsMarina Bellaver Corte, Lucas Festugato and Nilo Cesar Consoli

Servo-Assisted and Computer-Controlled Variable Energy Dynamic SuperHeavy Penetrometer

Miguel Angel Benz-Navarrete, Pierre Breul and Philippe MoustanStudy of the Characteristics of Anisotropy in the Hydro-Mechanical Behaviourin Clayey Silt

Octavio Cárdenas, Jaime González, José Dominguez and Juan Almanza

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Fully Softened Shear Strength: Application, Measurement, and CorrelationsBernardo A. Castellanos and Thomas L. Brandon

Uso de Cristales Piezoeléctricos (de Flexión) en la Medición de la Velocidadde Ondas de Corte y Compresión

Claudia Chamorro-Zurita and Efraín Ovando-Shelley

Instrumentación geotécnica de un terraplén de prueba con consolidaciónpor vacío en los suelos blandos del Valle de México

René Contreras, Carlos Sánchez and Mario Trigo

Estimación de la capacidad soportante admisible del lahar en la ciudadde San José, Costa Rica, mediante ensayos presiométricos (PMT)

Jonathan Echavarría Vargas and Carlos González Barrantes

Application of Back Pressure for Saturation of Soil Samples in Cyclic TriaxialTests 115

Naemeh Naghavi and M. Hesham El Naggar

Soil Behaviour Under Non-Uniform and Bidirectional Cyclic Loading 124Daniella E. Escribano, Gonzalo Montalva and A. Brennan

Método de Filtrado con Wavelet para el Análisis de Señales 130Alfonso Fernández-Lavín and Efraín Ovando-Shelley

Interpretación de Sefiales Usando Transformadas Wavelet Continuas 138Alfonso Fernändez-Lavin and Efraín Ovando-Shelley

Módulo cortante y amortiguamiento de relaves mineros no saturados 145Alfonso Fernández and Osvaldo Flores

Estudio comparativo de los módulos resiliente, dinámico y dinámico máximoen suelos del lago de Texcoco (t

Mario Flores, Alexandra Ossa, Santiago Fernandez, Martín Arenas,Enrique Gomez and David A. Santoyo

Novel Soil Profile Generation Algorithm for Cone Penetration Test DataEshan Ganju, Rodrigo Salgado and Monica Prezzi

Compressibility Behavior of Residual Soils in the Colombian Andes UnderConstant Rate of Strain 172

Diego I. Galeano-Parra, David G. Zapata-Medina,Luis G. Arboleda-Monsalve and Gaspar Monsalve

Measuring the Small-Strain Stiffness Anisotropy of Glacial Clayey Tillsof Southern Ontario 59

Jesus González-Hurtado and Timothy Newson

Effects of Structure on the Erodibility of Residual Soils of Gneiss "7Marcelo Heidemann, Helena Paula Nierwinski, Arethusa Goedertand Bruna Sell

Caracterización física, química y mineralógica de suelos diatomáceos, presentesen sedimentos de la ciudad de Tunja — Colombia

Omar Javier Jiménez, Luis Carlos Leguizamón and Yaneth Pineda

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Impact of Salinity Level in Pore Fluid on the Compressibility of ChamplainSea Clay 2^4

Jinyuan Liu and Ali Ahmad

Polymer Enhanced Clay-Sand Mixture 212Mauro Codevilla, Camilo Casagrande, Gastón Fernández,Teresa M. Piqué and Diego Manzanal

Profiling Yield Stresses and Identification of Soft Organic Clays UsingPiezocone Tests 2)

Paul Mayne and Shehab Agaiby

Shearing of Clay-Structure Interfaces at Varying Deformation Rates conAlejandro Martinez and Hans Henning Stutz

Characterization of Intermediate and Structured Soils with a CPT-InterfaceResponse Soil Classification Framework 255

Gregory Hebeler, Alejandro Martinez, David Frost and Ethan Cargill

Preconsolidation Pressure of Post-Glacial Soft Clay and Silt Deposits 244Gholamreza Mesri and Thierno Kane

Cyclic Response of Artificially Cemented Soils 253Jorge Mendoza, Domenico Lombardi and Syed Ahmad

Conductividad Hidráulica en Campo y Laboratorio: Desempefio de SuelosFinos en Aplicación Ambiental a

Marcos Musso, Alfonso Flaquer, Gonzalo Bango, Leonardo Leiteand Agustin Menta

Assessment of the Geo-Mechanical Properties of Mojave Mars Simulant-1(MMS-1) Soil 03

Takuro Fujikawa, Timothy Newson, Aly Ahmed and Muhammad Safdar

Permeability Variation Analysis in the Raising Steps of Tailings Deposits 278Helena Paula Nierwinski, Marcelo Heidemann, Edgar Odebrecht,Amanda Reus and Pérside da Rosa Siviero

Evaluating Rigidity Index, OCR, and s, from Dilatometer Data in Softto Firm Clays 205

Zhongkun Ouyang and Paul MayneCompressibility and Dynamic Properties of Diatomaceous Soilsfrom Mejillones, Chile 1

Carlos Ovalle, Ghio Arenaldi-Perisic and Antonio Barrios

Shear Modulus of a Saturated Sand Subjected to Cyclic Loading 3Hernán Patifio and Eliana Martínez

Sudden Failure of a Soft Soil Subjected to Static and Cyclic Loading 311Hernán Patifio, Eliana Martínez and Rubén Galindo

Shear Strength Characteristics of a Bauxite TailingCarla Palomino Tinoco and Fernando A.M. Marinho

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Actualización de la aplicación del ficómetro en las zonas I y II (Lomasy Transición, respectivamente) de la Ciudad de México y su comparacióny/o correlación con la prueba de corte directo

Raziel Saul Ponce, David Eduardo Salgado, Rubén Gutiérrez,Ana L. Ponce and José Luis González

Shear Resistance of Zinc Mine TailingsLuciana Prado Leite Praca, Bruna Zakharia Hoch, Lucas Festugato,Fernando Schnaid and Sérgio Filipe Veloso Marques

Análisis del comportamiento elastoplástico con dafio continuo de un suelogranular cementado artificialmente y reforzado con fibras de polipropileno

Eduardo Bittar, Cesar Iberbuden, Arturo Ruiz Diaz, Rubén A. López,Antonio Aquino and Rubén Alejandro Quifionez

Uso de granulometrías y densidades escaladas para la caracterizacióngeotécnica de enrocados

Claudio Roman and Leonardo Dorador

Characterization of Soil-Geosynthetic Interaction Properties Along VariousDirections

M.M. Aboelwafa, G.H. Roodi and J.G. Zornberg

Evaluación comparativa del módulo dinámico y resiliente en las arcillasdel ex lago de Texcoco ^74

Tomás Romero, Alexandra Ossa and Mario Flores

Determinación de las propiedades de compresibilidad de la arcilla de la Ciudadde México mediante pruebas de laboratorio (consolidación unidimensional)y campo (presiómetro y piezocono) 2

David Eduardo Salgado and Rigoberto Rivera Constantino

Monotonic Shear Loading Response of Sand-Silt Mixtures from Direct SimpleShear Tests '

Achala Soysa and Dharma Wijewickreme

Soil Dynamic Stiffness and Wave Velocity Measurement Through DynamicCone Penetrometer and Wave Analysis

Quoc Anh Tran, Miguel Angel Benz Navarrete, Pierre Breul,Bastien Chevalier and Philippe Moustan

The Measurement of the Undrained Shear Strength of Muds Using a Cylinder UOLuis E. Vallejo

Control Aplicación de Ensayos de Penetración de Índice de Bosio paraCaracterización de Rocas Blandas y Suelos Endurecidos

Miguel Stanichevsky and Tatiana Stanichevsky

Technical Session S2 — Analytical and Physical Modelling in Geotechnics

Comparison of Analyses of an Active Slide in Tropical Soilby Two-Dimensional and Quasi-Three-Dimensional Methods

Leonardo De Bona Becker, Ana Paula Fonsecaand Willy Alvarenga Lacerda

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Application of a Physical Model of Soil-Structure Interaction in StaticCondittions ^75

Ricardo Campos Campos and Ricardo Luis Campos MondragonCalculation of Settlement in Sands Using a Non-Linear Constitutive Equation 4^^

Agustín Demeneghi and Margarita PueblaExperimental Behavior of a Reinforced Concrete Pile DuringLiquefaction-Induced Lateral Spreading

Ahmed Ebeido and Ahmed Elgamal

Caracterización geostadística de la zona urbana de la Ciudad de Coatzacoalcos,Veracruz, México "Ud

Juan Antonio Guzmán-Ventura and María de la Luz Pérez-Rea

Experimental and Numerical Evaluation of the Effect of Compaction-InducedStress on Reinforced Soil Walls Performance

S.H. Mirmoradi and M. Ehrlich

Simulation of a Weak Layered Profile Using Geotechnical Centrifuge ZHCristian Yair Soriano, Renan Bezerra de Andrade,Samuel Felipe Mollepaza, Márcio de Souza Soares de Almeida,Maria Cascáo Ferreira de Almeida,José Renato Moreira da Silva de Oliveira and Pablo Cesar Trejo

Using 3D Printing Techniques to Build Artificial Porous MediaLuan Carlos de Sena Monteiro Ozelim and André Luís Brasil Cavalcante

Behavior of a Single-Helix Anchor in Sand Subjected to Cyclic Loading:Centrifuge Modeling

José A. Schiavon, Cristina de H.C. Tsuha and Luc Thorel

Granular Mechanics of Shear Banding of Soil SlopesCalixtro Yanqui

Granular Mechanics of the Shear Strength of Normally Consolidated Clays °Calixtro Yanqui

Comportamiento esfuerzo-deformacion de suelos altamente preconsolidadosno expansivos £7

Paulina Lizeth Talamantes Carrillo and Eduardo Rojas Gonzdlez

Technical Session S3 — Numerical Modelling in Geotechnics

Geomechanical Characterization of MICP-Treated SoilsRonak Mehrabi and Kamelia Atefi-Monfared

Numerical Analysis of the Behavior of Compacted and Natural UnsaturatedTropical Soils

Isabela Augusto Silveira, Fábio Visnadi Prado Soares,Rodrigo Botelho Dumont, Heraldo Luiz Giachetiand Roger Augusto Rodrigues

Modelado numerico de las pilas tipo barrettes en condiciones del subsuelode la zona del lago de la Ciudad de Mexico

Jose-Luis Rangel N., Enrique Ibarra R. and Ricardo Flores E.

Numerical Analysis of Piled Raft Composed by Short Piles 553Jean Rodrigo Garcia and Paulo José Rocha de Albuquerque

Análisis numérico del proceso de infiltración-deformación en suelosparcialmente saturados reforzados con geosintéticos permeables usandoun modelo acoplado

Juan C. Guzman, Edwin F. Garcia-Aristizabal and Carlos A. Vega-Posada

Effects of Hydraulic Model on Gas Productivity and Geomechanical StabilityDuring Methane Hydrate Production by Depressurization

Jung-Tae Kim, Ah-Ram Kim, Gye-Chun Cho, Chul-Whan Kangand Joo Young Lee

A Family of Constitutive Models Implemented in PLAXIS to SimulateCemented Mine Backfill

Mauro Sottile, Nicolás Labanda, Ifiaki García Mendive, Osvaldo Ledesmaand Alejo O. Sfriso

Reliability-Based Design of an Anchor-Supported ExcavationOsvaldo N. Ledesma, William Gibson and Alejo O. Sfriso

3D Numerical Modeling for Analyses of Pumping Tests and Its Application onPumping Well Systems Design 7

Norma Patricia López-Acosta, Mónica Martinez-Lázaroand José Alfredo Promotor

Determination and Comparison of the N'q Factor of Pile CapacitySergio Antonio Martínez-Galván, Neftali Sarmiento-Solanoand Juan Fernando Tovar-Flores

Using DEM to Study the Behavior of Granular Soils Under Cyclic ShearLoading 5

L. Manjarrez and L. Zhang

Liquefaction Analysis of Undrained Cyclic Tests by Calibrationof Constitutive Models UN

M. García, D. Manzanal and E. Carvajal-Díaz

Evaluación de estabilidad de taludes compuestos por bimsoils/bimrocksmediante modelación computacional de superficies de falla tortuosascon el algoritmo A*

Exneyder A. Montoya-Araque and Ludger O. Suarez-BurgoaCriteria to Perform Ground-Segmented Tunnels Lining Interaction Analysis,Using an Hybrid Method

Marco Pérez Angeles, Diego Forero Buitrago, Gabriel Auvinet Guichardand Rui Grilo Bibi

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Evaluaciön de la interacciön suelo-estructura dinämica en depösitosde suelo blando empleando dos métodos: numérico y analítico

Omar Franco-Camilo, José-Luis Rangel-Nufiez,Luciano R. Fernández-Sola and Alonso Gómez-Bernal

Constitutive Models for Municipal Solid Waste in LandfillsGirish Kumar and Krishna R. Reddy

Geotechnical Design and Structural Evaluation of End-Bearing Piles Subjectedto a Double Consolidation Process

Carlos E. Rodriguez and Gabriel Auvinet

Optimization of a Nuclear Reactor Foundation Based on Field GeotechnicalTesting and Numerical Modeling 7]

Mauro Sottile, Osvaldo Ledesma and Alejo Sfriso

Effects on Rail and Highway Infrastructures due to Underground ExcavationsAccording to Simplified and Detailed 3D Modelling Approaches

Wagner Martin, Alejandra Villouta and Juan Pozo

Technical Session S4 — Unsaturated Soils

Geotechnical Mapping: Susceptibility to Collapsible Soils, Expansive Soils,Erosive Soils, Dispersive Soils and Soft Soils, Based on the Sedologyof the City of Caruaru- Pernambuco/Brazil

Amanda Evelyn Barbosa de Aquino, Raiza Silva Bezerraand Silvio Romero de Melo Ferreira

Influence of Post-Compaction Moisture and Suction on Shear Strenghtof Soils Used in Paving

Thaís Aquino dos Santos, Lucas Eduardo Dornelles,Luciano Pivoto Specht and Rinaldo José Barbosa Pinheiro

Back-Analysis of an Infinite Unsaturated Soil Slope Using a BayesianFramework

Mauricio Garcia-Feria and Julio E. Colmenares

Hysteresis Cycles Prediction and Their Behavior on Expansive Soil- WaterRetention Curve 716

José Roberto Galaviz-González, Jaime Horta-Rangel, David Avalos-Cueva,Pedro Limon-Covarrubias and Jaime Robles-Sotelo

Comportamiento volumétrico de un suelo no saturado derivado de cenizasvolcánicas del departamento del Cauca, Colombia (0f

Ana María Latorre, Carol Andrea Murillo and José Andrés Cruz

Effect of Unsaturated Soil Zone on Slope Stability 779Jose Alfredo Promotor and Norma Patricia Lôpez-Acosta

Swell Characterization of Expansive Clays from Comodoro Rivadavia —Argentine

Diego Manzanal, Sandra Orlandi, Ezequiel Miranda, Marco Robinsonand Juan Cruz Barria

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Role of Suction on the Seismic Compression of Unsaturated Sand UnderPartially Drained Conditions

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Suction Stress Characteristic Curve for Compacted Silty Sandfrom Suction-Controlled Triaxial Testing

Ujwalkumar D. Patil, Laureano R. Hoyos, Anand J. Puppala,Surya S.C. Congress and Aritra Banerjee

Influencia de las variaciones de contenido de agua en la deformaciónpermanente de suelos de subrasante o terraplén :

Natalia Pérez and Paul Garnica

A Simple Model for Unsaturated Soils Based on Critical State 772Eduardo Rojas, M. Luz Perez-Rea, Omar Chávezand Christian E. Hernández

Dependencia de las propiedades de retención de agua en suelos caoliníticoscon contenidos de microalgas fosilizadas adicionadas artificialmente

Juan Carlos Ruge, Wilmar Castro-Rincón,Javier Fernando Camacho-Tauta and Fausto Andrés Molina-Gómez

An Effective Stress Framework for Clayey Geomaterials Including a Chemical-Dependent Variable mE

Angelica Tuttolomondo, Alessio Ferrari and Lyesse Laloui

Presión de expansión y su interpretación utilizando esfuerzos efectivosCesar Isaac Verdin Montes and Eduardo Rojas