Due to the hydraulic sorting effect in the hydraulic filling process, a fine-grained aggregate layer dominated by silty fine sand with uneven distribution is easily formed in reclamation projects, which triggers issues with the bearing capacity and n...
In South Korea, Honam High-Speed Railway has a relatively large residual settlement issue and high fines content has been pointed out as one of the causes. Design guidelines regulate not to use soils containing fines content higher than 25%. However,...
This study aims to investigate the effects of fine content on the mechanical behavior of embankments constructed from volcanic soil subjected to rainfall and earthquake. To accomplish this purpose, a series of 1 g model experiments on slopes using Ko...
Manufactured sand is one of the effective ways to alleviate the extreme shortage of natural sand in the construction industry. This paper uses granite and limestone manufactured sand to study the effect of high fines content on the durability of high...
Plant sand fixation is the most durable and environmentally friendly sand mitigation measure for windblown sand hazards. For aeolian–sand composite soil, the fines content is the main factor affecting the pore size distribution characteristics...
Effect of fines content (weight % of particles with diameter less than 45 μm) on bed fluidity was determined to get a base for good fluidization quality in the fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit. The fines content in equilibrium FCC catalysts (Ec...
The mechanical behavior of sand–fines mixtures is governed by their limiting void ratios, which are sensitive to fines content and particle morphology. Conventional empirical correlations often fail to generalize to a wide range of soils, limit...
When loose, saturated sands and non-plastic silts are subjected to undrained cyclic loading, they will generate positive pore pressures. This increase in pore pressures leads to a decrease in effective stress with a corresponding decrease in shear st...
In southern China, granite residual soil (GRS) is widely used as road base material. Thus, it is important to study the effects of hot and rainy climates and cyclic loads generated by trains on the dynamic properties of GRS. In this work, by means of...
A new liquefaction probability model based on shear wave velocity (Vs) was developed through a detailed comparative analysis of existing evaluation methods. Publicly available shear wave velocity liquefaction data were used to evaluate multiple exist...
To clarify the regulatory laws of the fines content (FC) and particle size ratio (SR) on the mechanical properties of sand–fines mixtures and reveal the underlying microscopic mechanical mechanisms, this study takes sand–fines mixtures co...
This study aims to investigate the effect of plastic fine content on the undrained monotonic behavior of sandy soils (mixtures of host sand and various plastic fine content from 0 to 25%), and in particular, their static liquefaction resistance (undr...
As urbanization accelerates and surface space becomes increasingly scarce, the development and utilization of urban underground space have become more critical. The sand–fine mixture soils commonly found in river-adjacent and coastal areas pose...
Fine particle content significantly affects the in situ leaching of ion-adsorption-type rare earth ores. This study investigated the effect of fine particle content on solution flow and mass transfer in leaching. The results showed that with the incr...
The stress disturbance induced by adjacent construction has a significant impact on the dynamic characteristics of the soil, resulting in complex long-term tunnel settlement under train vibration load. Through a series of dynamic triaxial tests, the...
In in situ leaching, fine particles can be stripped and transported with the leach solution, significantly altering the particle size distribution and pore structure of each layer of the rare earth ore body. In this study, water and magnesium sulfate...
Microbial-induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) is a new soil remediation technology, which can improve the physical and mechanical properties of soil by transporting bacterial solution and cementation solution to loose soil and precipitatin...
Tree root system development alters forest soil properties, and differences in root diameter frequency and root length per soil volume reflect differences in root system function. In this study, the relationship between vertical distribution of very...
Due to being lightweight, fine-grained sediments easily flow with water and thus amplify the destructive effect of debris flow hazards. In such hazards, water content and shear strength are key inter-controlled factors relating to the stability of fi...
The invasion of clay fines can change the water retention properties of base layers significantly. There is no soil–water retention curve prediction equation that is capable of considering the effects of fines. In this study, the soil–wat...
The moisture content of dead fine forest fuels is a central component of nearly all fire behaviour and fire danger rating systems. For modelling purposes, equilibrium moisture content curves are an important input parameter. When a dead fine fuel is...
The construction of roads in saline soil areas usually involves using coarse-grained soil as roadbed fill material; studying the water–vapor–salt migration mechanism in coarse-grained saline soil subgrades is crucial for ensuring the stab...
Offshore wind turbines are subjected to environmental loads such as wind and ocean waves throughout their entire service lives. Saturated sandy soils experience liquefaction under cyclic shear stresses induced by earthquakes or strong wave actions, w...
In this study, the direct shear test and model pullout test results are presented to assess the impact of soil fines content and shear resistance characteristics of the pile–soil interface on the pullout resistance of drilled shafts. The direct...
The sintering process is significantly important for the ironmaking in China because of the large amount of sinter consumed. Al2O3 is an important element determining the quality and quantity of sinter. However, different conclusions have been made r...
The dead fine fuel moisture content (DFFMC) directly affects forest fire occurrence and spread. Accurate DFFMC prediction is key to estimating forest fire risk and behavior. The well-fitting machine learning (ML)-based meteorological factor regressio...
Research Highlights: Environmental abiotic stressors generate secondary stresses in plants, such as osmotic and oxidative stresses, which negatively influence their normal growth, development, and metabolism. Research about other non-enzymatic compon...
Instability and high permeability are two of the problems facing tunnelling excavations in soils with high fines content. Among the different techniques used to improve these soils, the injection of cement grouts stands out. In this work, a grouting...
To effectively apply various soil types for embankments, understanding their compaction characteristics is crucial. One crucial factor affecting compaction is suction, which plays a significant role as it is typically performed under unsaturated cond...
Rainfall is the main cause of erosion damage in loose slope deposits. During rainfall infiltration, fine particles in the soil mass will move with water infiltration, thus changing the localized particle distribution of the soil mass, which, in turn,...
Cohesive and non-cohesive soils show a number of properties typical of a given category. Cohesive soils are characterized by cohesion, and the properties of compacted soils closely depend on moisture at compaction. However, many researchers have foun...
The permeability of ionic rare is a crucial factor influencing the leaching rate of rare earth elements. In the Gannan region, many ionic rare earth ores exhibit poor permeability and high compressibility compared to sandy soils. The permeability coe...
Seepage erosion around sheet pile walls represents a critical failure mechanism in geotechnical engineering, yet the underlying mechanisms governing the onset of erosion remain poorly understood. This study presents a comprehensive multi-scale invest...
Tailings ponds serve as high-potential energy structures designed to store waste tailings and other industrial materials. However, they can give rise to significant environmental pollution and pose a substantial threat to social and economic developm...
Under undrained monotonic static loading, saturated loose granular materials may undergo static liquefaction. Tailings, a kind of granular material, pose particularly serious hazards after static liquefaction. To understand the effects of the initial...
This study investigated recycled aggregates of Jeju Island—where porous basalt exists as a natural aggregate—and is a study aimed at verifying the applicability of the basalt-based recycled aggregate in the field. To this end, the applica...
The phenomenon of fine particle migration through the voids of the granule skeleton under the seepage force is called suffusion. Relative density, original fine particle content, and gap ratio are thought to play vital roles in the suffusion process....
Understanding the response characteristics of fine roots to soil drought of different degrees is essential for revealing the ecological adaptability of trees to different water environments and diverse plant resource absorption strategies. This study...
Pinus massoniana is an important tree species for wind protection and timber forests in Southern China. In recent years, P. massoniana plantations have been developed on more than 11,300,000 hm2 in southern China, but numerous problems have been obse...
Resonant column tests were carried out on Hostun sand mixed with 5%, 10% and 20% non-plastic fines (defined as grains smaller than 0.075 mm) in order to quantify the combined influence of the void ratio (e), anisotropic stress state (defined as &sigm...
The majority of the sandcrete blocks used in the Nigerian building industry fall short of the minimum specification standards. There is evidence to suggest a wide variation in compressive strength from one block manufacturer to another and also withi...
The grinding reinforcement of fine sand layers is a difficult problem in dam engineering construction. As a new type of grouting material, permeable polymer with excellent impermeability and high strength is widely used in dam engineering. In this pa...
Fine-fuel moisture is an important variable in the wildland fire environment, but measuring live fuel moisture is time-consuming. There is a strong incentive to develop technologies that provide instantaneous measurements of fine-fuel moisture. Campb...
Earthen dams with greater fines are more susceptible to failure from the piping. This study employed the coupled computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-discrete element method (DEM) to investigate the impact of the piping erosion process. Results display...
To investigate the effects of the properties of plastic fines on the pore water pressure generation characteristics of fine-grained soils during cyclic loadings, we used 29 sets of test data from the literature and prepared another 21 reconstituted s...
An interlayer existed between the ballast layer and subgrade in the conventional railway substructure. Considering that the shear strength τ of the interlayer soil was influenced by the changes in the ballast grain content and water content, this...
A capillary barrier cover (CBC) is a geotechnical structure which a coarse-grained soil layer covered by a fine-grained soil layer. A CBC can retain downward water infiltration, increase water storage capacity and lateral diversion, and prevent capil...
Some sugar factories lack sufficient data collection in their milling production lines, making it challenging to construct data-driven models for predicting initial juice sugar content. This paper proposes an adversarial semi-supervised pre-training...
Soil thermal conductivity in the near-phase-transition zone is a key parameter affecting the thermal stability of permafrost engineering and its catastrophic thermal processes. Therefore, accurately determining the soil thermal conductivity in this s...
From November 2016 to January 2017, there were large-scale dense fog processes in Tianjin area on the west coast of Bohai Bay, China, even strong dense fog with visibility less than 50 m occurred. Based on the observation data of fog droplet spectrum...
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