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The earthen final covers based on the water storage and release principle have a promising application in the landfills in arid and semi-arid areas. Most of the previous studies concentrate on the rainwater infiltration ...

The parameters obtained from the piezocone penetration tests (CPTU) have been widely used for soil profiling and geostratigraphy over the decades. In this study, large amount of CPTU soundings and parallel drilling borin...

The design and construction of strengthening of a building in soft soil area is taken as an example. The reasons for the settlement and the inclination of this project are analyzed in combination with the monitoring data...

Plants are sophisticated and intelligent natural construction materials. They can be used for enhancing the stability of shallow soil slopes and minimizing surface erosion. It is evident that the use of plants can be low...

Sandbag cofferdam applies flexible load on soil foundation. The failure mode and sliding surface of soft soil foundation under sandbag cofferdam should be significantly different from that under rigid base. Aimed to get ...

A small-scale physical modelling system is developed to study the pull-out mechanism of embedded soil nails based on transparent soil and particle image velocimetry (PIV). Four types of soil anchorages, common cylindrica...

The shear modulus and damping ratio of EPS composite soil, as a kind of artificial filling material, are the key parameters to analyze the dynamic stability of embankment. 15 cyclic torsional tests are conducted on the h...

obvious influence on the failure strain than on the initial yield strain. The non-uniform distribution of fine soil has a more significant influence on the initial yield strain than on the failure strain. Key words: fi...

The organic matter is an important symbol of peaty soil which is different from soft clay. The content of organic matter directly affects the physiochemical properties of peaty soil, and further affects its consolidation...

Soil acidity is one of the reasons for corrosion of steel piles. The material deterioration of steel pile foundation served in the acidic soil will affect the safety and durability of pile foundation. In order to underst...

The CU triaxial tests and ring shear tests on interface between steel pipe pile and soil of a kind of intact marine soft clay with medium structure are carried out under influence of shear strain rate, and the variations...

Eight large-scale triaxial tests on coarse-grained soil with different lithologies are carried out. The effects of gradation on strength, deformation, dilatancy and particle breakage characteristics of coarse-grained soi...

Experimental researches on undisturbed soil samples are of great significance for the oil and gas exploitation in South China Sea. The physical and chemical properties of seabed soil in the slope area of South China Sea ...

Based on the actual state of the soil along rail transit in hot and rainy area, the resonant column tests on the soil under wetting and drying circles are conducted to study the stiffness characteristics of residual soil...

In order to study the influence of non-uniform distribution of fine soil on mechanical properties of coarse-grained soil under freeze-thaw cycles, triaxial shear tests are conducted on different specimens with different ...

Using specially designed low-temperature resonant column apparatus, change rules of dynamic shear moduli and damping ratio with negative temperature and their computational methods for three soils are investigated. Conce...

The triaxial permeability tests on cement-gravel soil are conducted using the improved triaxial test apparatus. Various factors including cement mixing ratio, gravel content, degree of compaction and seepage pressure tha...

The statistics of uncertain rock and soil parameters can be updated with the information from different sources such as in-situ measurements and field observations via probabilistic back analysis, which can be further us...

A physical modelling system is developed to study the pull-out mechanism of embedded soil anchors using transparent soil and particle image velocimetry (PIV). In the system, two different continuous ball shape anchors ar...

In order to observe the effected strip of geogrid-reinforcement, a series of geogrid pull-out tests are conducted in a test box which has one Plexiglas wall, applied 4 different vertical pressures on each specimen prepar...

The soil disturbance deformation induced by sampler penetration has a significant influence on the physical and mechanical properities of soil in soil investigation engineering. A series of small-scale model tests with d...

The inorganic materials adopted in the improvement of expansive soil engineering include lime and cement. During the construction process, the improving effect is greated influenced by the mixing uniformity of the soil c...

Since the coefficients of variation of soil properties vary in a large range, the real reliability index for the soil slope designed using the partial factor method also fluctuates in a range. This drawback limits the ap...

The relationships among the soil shear modulusobtained by oedometer tests, by pumping tests and the initial shear modulusof hardening soil small (HSS) model for soft soil under sensitive circumstance in Shanghai and Tia...