List of selected publications:

  • Karastanev, D. 1992. Long-Term Performance of Soil-Cement Screens of Water Basins. - In: Proc. of the 6th Young Geotechnical Enginees' Conf., Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Karastanev, D. 1993. The experience in the irrigation construction (4.3.). - In: Cementation of rocks and soils. Evstatiev, D., R. Àngelova (Eds.), Publ. House of the BAS, Sofia, 90-100, (in Bulgarian).
  • Todorov, K. & D. Karastanev . 1993. A composition for impervious screen. - In: Cementation of rocks and soils. Evstatiev, D. & R. Àngelova (Eds.), Publ. House of the BAS, Sofia, 148-152, (in Bulgarian).
  • Evstatiev, D., P. Petrov, R. Angelova & D. Karastanev. 1993. Geological and geoecological characteristic of radioactive waste repository in the Lozen mountain. Rev. of Bulg. Geol. Soc., vol. LIV, part 3, 109-120, (in Bulgarian).
  • Todorov, K., D. Evstatiev, D. Karastanev & V. Nikolov. 1994. Geotechnical Study of Lagooned Ash in Bulgaria. Publ. House of the BAS, Sofia, 127 p.
  • Donchev, P. & D. Karastanev. 1994. Deep hydroblasting compaction of loess soil base of a hydraulic structure. - Stroitelstvo (Construction), 4-5, 27-29, (in Bulgarian).
  • Todorov, K. & D. Karastanev. 1994. Effect of Quarry Activities on Geonvironment in Bulgaria. -In: Proc. of the 7th Intern. Congress IAEG, Lisboa, Portugal, 5-9 September, Balkema, 2757-2760.
  • Evstatiev, D., P. Petrov, R. Angelova & D. Karastanev. 1994. Geoenvironmental assessment of radioactive waste repository. -In: Proc. of the 7th Intern. Congress IAEG, Lisboa, Portugal, 5-9 September, Balkema, 2403-2410.
  • Karastanev, D. 1994. Silting of artificial reservoirs (2.2.11); Fluctuation of shallow ground water table (2.2.15); Water aggressiveness (2.2.18); Collapsibility of loess (2.3.1); Liquefaction of sands (2.3.4); Artesian aquifers with high pressure (2.3.5); Possible significant water flow in excavations (2.3.6). - In: Geological hazards in Bulgaria - explanatory text to the map in scale 1: 500 000. I. Iliev-Bruchev (Ed.), Publ. House of the BAS, Sofia, 143, (in Bulgarian).
  • Evstatiev, D., R. Angelova & D. Karastanev. 1995. Stabilization of Weak Railway Embankment by Lime Columns and Soil-Lime Cushion. -In: Proc. of 10th Danube-European Conf. on SMFE “Geotechnical Engineering for Transportation Systems and Environmental Protection”, Vol. 1, Mamaia, Romania, 12-15 September, Publ. by Techn. Univ. of Civil Eng.-Bucharest, 75-80.
  • Kitazume, M., T. Ikeda, S. Miyajima & D. Karastanev. 1996. Bearing capacity of improved ground with column type DMM. -In: Proc. of 2nd Intern. Conf. on Ground Improvement Geosystems “Grouting and Deep Mixing”, 14-17 May, Tokyo, Japan, 503-508.
  • Karastanev, D. , M. Kitazume, S. Miyajima & T. Ikeda. 1997. Bearing capacity of shallow foundation on column type DMM improved ground. -In: Proc. of XIVth ICSMFE, Hamburg, 6-12 Sept., 1621-1624.
  • Karastanev, D. , St. Stoinev. 1997. Dynamic resistance of loess in condition of triaxial cyclic loading.- Rev. of Bulg. Geol. Soc., vol. 58, part 3, 197-203, (in Bulgarian).
  • Karastanev, D. & St. Stoinev. 1997. Strength behavior of loess depending on the degree of saturation. -In: Proc. of Bulgarian-Japaneese Seminar ‘Geotechnics of soft soils’, 27 March 1997, Sofia, 17-27.
  • Karastanev, D. , 1998. Influence of moisture content on strength behavior of loess. -In: Proc. ff the International Symposium on Problematic Soils - IS-Tohoku’98, Japan, October 25-28, 457-460.
  • Evstatiev, D., R. Angelova, D. Karastanev & B. Vachev. 1998. System analysis of sites for low and intermediate level radioactive waste repository. Rev. of Bulg. Geol. Soc., vol. 59, part 1, 83-91.
  • Kitazume, M., T. Nakamura & D. Karastanev. 2000. Strength behaviour of loess improved by stabilizing agents. -In: Proc. of 3rd Intern. Conf. on Ground Improvement Techniques, 25-26 September, Singapore, 227-232.
  • Evstatiev, D., Chr. Christchev & D. Karastanev (Eds.). 2000. Belene NPP - additional geological investigations. Publ. House of BAS, Sofia, 110 p. (in Bulgarian).
  • Evstatiev, D., D. Karastanev , R. Angelova & I. Jefferson. 2002. Improvement of collapsible loess soils from Eastern Europe: Lessons from Bulgaria. -In: 4th Intern. Conf. on Ground Improvement Techniques, 26-28 March, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 331-338.
  • Jefferson, I., Smalley, I., Karastanev, D. & Evstatiev, D., 2002. Comparison of the behaviour of British and Bulgarian loess. In: van Rooy, J.L. and Jermy, C.A. (Eds.). - In: Proc. of the 9th Congress of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Durban, September 16-20, 253-263, ISBN 0 62028 5591, [CD ROM\papers\062.pdf].
  • Jefferson, I., D. Evstatiev, D. Karastanev , N. Mavlyanova & I. Smalley. 2003. Engineering geology of loess and loess-like deposits: a commentary on the Russian literature. Engineering geology, Vol. 68, 3-4, 333-351.
  • Evstatiev, D., D. Kozhuharov & D. Karastanev. 2003. Possibilities for deep geological disposal of RAW in Bulgaria. - In: Intern. Conf. on Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel Management, 6-8 November, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, [CD ROM\papers], (in Bulgarian).
  • Todorov, K., R. Markova , D. Karastanev. 2003. Comparison of the properties of clayey soils in connection with RAW disposal. - In: Intern. Conf. on Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel Management, 6-8 November, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, [CD ROM\papers], (in Bulgarian).
  • Karastanev D. , B. Tchakalova, K. Todorov. 2005. Application of soil stabilization techniques in hazardous waste isolation. -In: International Symposium on Latest Natural Disasters - New Challenges for Engineering Geology, Geotechnics and Civil Protection, September 5-8, Sofia, Bulgaria [CD ROM\papers].
  • Jefferson, I., Ch. Rogers, D. Evstatiev, D. Karastanev. 2005. Treatment of metastable loess soils: Lessons from Eastern Europe. Chapter 25, Ground Improvement - Case Histories. Elsevier Geo-engineering book series. Volume 3, Elsevier, 723-762.
  • Mallants, D., D. Karastanev, and D. Antonov. 2005. The 2005 site characterization campaign at the Mariching Valog site (Kozloduy), Bulgaria. Assistance to selection and site evaluation for low- and intermediate level waste disposal in Bulgaria. SCK•CEN report R-4285, SCK•CEN, Mol, Belgium, 43 p.
  • Mallants, D., D. Karastanev and D. Antonov. 2006. The 2006 site characterization campaign at the Mariching Valog site (Kozloduy), Bulgaria. Assistance to selection and site evaluation for low- and intermediate level waste disposal in Bulgaria. SCK•CEN report R-4419, SCK•CEN, Mol, Belgium, 30 p.
  • Karastanev D., D. Evstatiev. 2006. Nuclear Waste Disposal in Bulgaria: Possibilities for Radioactive Waste Disposal in Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant Area. -In: Geological Challenges in Radioactive Waste Isolation. Forth Worldwide Review. P.A. Witherspoon & G.S. Bodvarsson, Ed., Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, 29-38.
  • ×àêàëîâà, Á., Ê. Òîäîðîâ, Ä. Êàðàñòàíåâ. 2006. Èçîëàöèîííè åêðàíè îò ïëàñòè÷íè öèìåíòîëüîñîâè ñìåñè. - Â: Äîêëàäè íà Ìåæäóíàðîäíà íàó÷íà êîíôåðåíöèÿ “Ïðîåêòèðàíå è ñòðîèòåëñòâî íà ñãðàäè è ñúîðúæåíèÿ”, 14-16 ñåïòåìâðè, Âàðíà, 567-572.
  • Mallants, D., D.Karastanev, D. Antonov and J. Perko. 2007. Innovative in-situ determination of unsaturated hydraulic properties in deep loess sediments in North-West Bulgaria. - In: Proc. Of the 11th Intern. Conf. on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management, ICEM07-7202, Sept. 2-6, Bruges, Belgium.
  • Arents, G., W. Brewitz, G. Buday, J. Dalton, G. Eggermont, V. Gorea, R. Jarasuniene, D. Karastanev, M. Martell, E. Maset, C. Mays, I. Mele, D. Metlay, P. K. Narayan, B. Neerdael, K. Shaver, O. Soderberg, M. Takeuchi, J. Wang. 2007. Factors Affecting Public and Political Acceptance for the Implementation of Geological Disposal. -IAEA-TECDOC-1566, 51 p.
  • Karastanev D., D. Mallants and D. Antonov. 2007. Methodological approach for characterization and modeling of variable saturated media by HYDRUS. - Geologica Balcanica, 37, 3-4. (in print)
  • Jefferson, I., D. Evstatiev, D. Karastanev. 2008. The treatment of collapsible loess soils using cement materials. - In: Proc. of GeoCongress 2008: The Challenge of Sustainability in the Geoenvironment, Annual Congress of the Geo-Institute of ASCE, March 9-12, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. (in print).

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