...David Eduardo Lourenço; Fernando Schnaid; Edith Beatriz Camaño Schettini Pile installation by water jetting relies extensively upon empirical methods. For more scientific approaches, improvements have to be made in identifying the erosion processes that occur within the zone of soil adjacent...

... of the major methods available for estimating the drag forces on pipelines and piles caused by a mass gravity soil movement has been presented and compared with one another. The methods available are limited in terms of the application and provide a wide range of estimates. There is significant room...