A gigantic project named Gully Land Consolidation (GLC) was launched in the hill-gully region of the Chinese Loess Plateau in 2011 to cope with land degradation and create new farmlands for cultivation. However, as a particular kind of remolded loess...
Loess has the characteristics of complex structure and reduced mechanical strength after encountering water. In Chinese loess areas, irrigation, water storage, and rainfall affect the stability of the original loess structure and cause damage to the...
To study the flow and strength characteristics of loess-based backfill materials, orthogonal tests were used to design a cemented backfill material combining loess, high-water content materials, cement, and fly ash. By using the range, analysis of va...
Solid backfill mining as a green mining method has already been successfully applied in many mine sites. Higher requirements for the backfilling materials have been put forward in special regions, such as shallow coal seams, ecologically susceptible...
Loess is highly water-sensitive and collapsible, and its conventional use as backfill in road and railway infrastructure may lead to settlement and deformation after wetting. Converting excavated loess into controlled low-strength material (CLSM) pro...
In the loess region, the hydraulic properties of the loess, used as either surrounding rock, backfilling or geoplomer material, are significant for engineering construction and agriculture development projects. This work investigated the soil-water c...
Alkali-activated slag–loess cemented backfill materials are subjected to coupled confining pressure and curing temperature in open-pit end-slope backfill mining. This study investigates their mechanical properties and microscopic mechanisms und...
Groundwater resources are essential for sustaining ecosystems and human activities, especially under the pressures of climate change. This study employed Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) to assess the impact of Gully Land Consolidation (GLC) e...
The Loess Plateau is threatened by severe gully erosion and tableland retreat, primarily driven by uncontrolled surface runoff. Numerical simulations of Gully Consolidation and Highland Protection (GCHP) demonstrate that individual measures such as c...
From 2011 to 2013, a mega project, known as the Gully Land Consolidation Project (GLCP), was implemented in the hilly gully region atop China’s Loess Plateau. However, the GLCP involved large-scale slope excavation and gully backfilling that ch...