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Serge Leroueil

Serge Leroueil

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
56
Citations
14948
World Ranking
2765
National Ranking
114

Earth Science

D-Index
57
Citations
15572
World Ranking
2235
National Ranking
106

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Serge Leroueil is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada and has a research focus predominantly within the field of Engineering. Their work spans several subfields including Civil and Structural Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Mechanics of Materials, and Soil Science.

Their research topics primarily cover Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics, Landslides and related hazards, Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis, Soil and Unsaturated Flow, Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures, Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization, and Rock Mechanics and Modeling.

Serge Leroueil has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Canadian Geotechnical Journal
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Géotechnique
  • Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Serge Leroueil include:

  • Laboratory study on subgrade fluidization under undrained cyclic triaxial loading, 2020, Canadian Geotechnical Journal
  • The 2016 landslide at Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes, Quebec: geotechnical and morphological analysis of a combined flowslide and spread, 2020, Canadian Geotechnical Journal
  • Hydrogeology of a complex Champlain Sea deposit (Quebec, Canada): implications for slope stability, 2020, Canadian Geotechnical Journal
  • Localized behaviour of fluidized subgrade soil subjected to cyclic loading, 2022, Canadian Geotechnical Journal
  • A rare case of downward progressive failure in eastern Canada: the 1976 Saint-Fabien landslide, 2022, Canadian Geotechnical Journal

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Denis Demers
  • Ariane Locat
  • Buddhima Indraratna
  • Thanh Trung Nguyen
  • Richard Kelly

Serge Leroueil was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2004, under the Academy of Science category.

Best Publications

  • The Varnes classification of landslide types, an update

    Oldrich Hungr;Serge Leroueil;Luciano Picarelli

  • The general and congruent effects of structure in natural soils and weak rocks

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  • Stress–strain–strain rate relation for the compressibility of sensitive natural clays

    S. Leroueil;M. Kabbaj;F. Tavenas;R. Bouchard

  • An efficient technique for generating homogeneous specimens for DEM studies

    M.J. Jiang;J.M. Konrad;S. Leroueil

  • Natural slopes and cuts: movement and failure mechanisms

    S. Leroueil

  • Influence of the nature of organic compounds on fine soil stabilization with cement

    Hélène Tremblay;Josée Duchesne;Jacques Locat;Serge Leroueil

  • Unstable behaviour of sand and its implication for slope instability

    J Chu;S Leroueil;W K Leong

  • Geotechnical characterization of slope movements

    S Leroueil;J Locat;J Vaunat;L Picarelli

  • Mechanical and hydraulic behaviour of a soft inorganic clay treated with lime

    Jacques Locat;Hélène Trembaly;Serge Leroueil

  • Propriétés caractéristiques des argiles de l'est du Canada

    Serge Leroueil;François Tavenas;Jean-Pierre Le Bihan

  • Mercury intrusion and permeability of Louiseville clay

    Clément Lapierre;Serge Leroueil;Jacques Locat

  • The permeability of natural soft clays. Part I: Methods of laboratory measurement

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  • Causes of sampling disturbance and design of a new sampler for sensitive soils

    P. La Rochelle;J. Sarrailh;F. Tavenas;M. Roy

  • Creep behaviour of an undisturbed lightly overconsolidated clay

    F. Tavenas;S. Leroueil;P. La Rochelle;M. Roy

  • Insight into shear strength functions of unsaturated granulates by DEM analyses

    M.J. Jiang;M.J. Jiang;S. Leroueil;J.M. Konrad

  • BEHAVIOR OF DESTRUCTURED NATURAL CLAYS

    Serge Leroueil;F. Tavenas;F Brucy;P La Rochelle

  • A simple and efficient approach to capturing bonding effect in naturally microstructured sands by discrete element method

    Mingjing Jiang;Hai-Sui Yu;Serge Leroueil

  • The behaviour of embankments on clay foundations

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  • Yielding and critical state of a collapsible unsaturated silty soil

    A. Maatouk;S. Leroueil;P. La Rochelle

  • Mechanical improvement and vertical yield stress prediction of clayey soils from eastern Canada treated with lime or cement

    Hélène Tremblay;Serge Leroueil;Jacques Locat

  • In situ and laboratory stress–strain relationships

    M. Kabbaj;F. Tavenas;S. Leroueil

  • Fragmentation energy in rock avalanches

    Pascal Locat;Réjean Couture;Serge Leroueil;Jacques Locat

  • Tenth Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium: Recent developments in consolidation of natural clays

    Serge Leroueil

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacques Locat
Jacques Locat Université Laval
Jean-Marie Konrad
Jean-Marie Konrad Université Laval
Mingjing Jiang
Mingjing Jiang Tongji University
Buddhima Indraratna
Buddhima Indraratna University of Technology Sydney
Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn
Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn University of Technology Sydney
Guillaume St-Onge
Guillaume St-Onge Université du Québec à Rimouski
Roger Urgeles
Roger Urgeles Spanish National Research Council
Oldrich Hungr
Oldrich Hungr University of British Columbia
Hai-Sui Yu
Hai-Sui Yu University of Leeds
Jean-Philippe Malet
Jean-Philippe Malet University of Strasbourg

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