Reinforced soil retaining walls (RSWs) for railways are key subgrade structures that bear cyclic loads from trains, and their long-term durability directly affects railway operation safety. The mechanical behavior of RSWs under cyclic loading has bee...
Soil–rock mixtures (SRM) have the characteristics of distinct heterogeneity and an obvious structural effect, which make their physical and mechanical properties very complex. This study aimed to investigate the deformation properties and failu...
To investigate the mechanical characteristics of gravel-block soils in the cold regions, four large direct shear tests were designed under different coarse particle contents and three dry density conditions. The stress variations during shearing and...
(1) Background: Wood decay is a serious issue that results from the presence of wood-destroying fungi and has a great influence on the international wood industry. The utilization of biological control methods offers good prospects for wood preservat...
The structure of soil–rock mixture (S-RM) is hierarchical, ranging from rock-block structures at the meter scale to centimeter-scale soil–rock structures. At different scales, these structures exert varying degrees of control over the phy...
Acetylation is one of the most common types of wood modification and is commercially available throughout the world. Many studies have shown that acetylated wood is decay resistant at high levels of acetylation. Despite its widespread use, the mechan...
Soil–rock mixture is a common geo-material found in natural deposit slopes and various constructions, such as tunnels, hydropower stations, and subgrades. The complex mechanical characteristics of soil–rock mixture arise from its multi-ph...
In response to the problems of excessive wheat stubble blocking the opener during corn seeding in wheat–corn double cropping areas, an active-strip stubble removal method was proposed under the premise of conservation tillage. Firstly, the effe...
Treated wood timbers employed in ground contact are often installed with a cement collar to firmly fix the structural wood post in place. Few prior studies have determined the effect of concrete on decay efficacy on treated wood, however. Treated woo...
Earthen materials are the world’s oldest and cheapest construction materials. Compacted soil stabilised blocks are unfired admixed soil blocks made up of soil plus stabilisers such as binders, fibres, or a combination of both. The manufacturing...
Unfired admixed soil blocks are made up of soil plus stabilizers such as binders, fibers, or a combination of both. Soil is abundant on Earth, and it has been used to provide shelter to millions of people. The manufacturing and usage of cement and ce...
Projects in seasonal frozen soil areas are often faced with frost heaving and thawing subsidence failure, and the foundation fill of most projects is a mixture of soil and rock. Therefore, taking soil–rock mixture with different rock contents a...
An experimental approach for measuring the wetting front velocity in soils during water infiltration processes is presented. This experimental research is developed to test the sensitivity of the measurement technique in the detection of differences...
Piping is a kind of seepage failure mode that commonly occurs under the influence of seepage force in soil materials. Many studies have been done to study the characteristics of piping for soil materials, however, the initiation and development mecha...
In this paper, we present a strength and deformation evaluation of earth blocks reinforced with different types of fiber. A natural palm tree fiber and two other types of synthetic polyolefin fibers were used to improve earth blocks’ strength a...
Rammed earth blocks have recently gained substantial popularity in construction materials due to their environmental benefits, energy saving, and financial effectiveness. These benefits are even more pronounced if waste materials such as olive waste...
Excessive consumption of natural resources to meet the growing demands of building and infrastructure projects has put enormous stress on these resources. On the other hand, a significant quantity of soil is excavated for development activities acros...
Seepage failure in the form of piping can strongly influence the stability of block-in-matrix-soils (bimsoils), as well as weaken and affect the performance of bimsoil structures. The multiple-factor evaluation and optimization play a crucial role in...
Soil is continuously excavated for development activities in urban and rural areas and treated as waste. This study investigates the characteristics of urban soils excavated from earthworks of buildings in the Brittany region of France for their pers...
Crushed brick waste (CBW) is a major fraction of construction and demolition waste, yet design-oriented shear strength data for its reuse in earthworks remain scarce. This study examines CBW–soil mixtures within the block-in-matrix soil (Bimsoi...
In an analysis of the penetration resistance and tillage depth of post-tillage soil, four surface-layer discrimination methods, specifically, three machine learning algorithms—Kmeans, DBSCAN, and GMM—and a curve-fitting method, were used...
This paper focuses on the influencing factors of MICP solidification of soil–rock mixture. After selecting the best soil–rock ratio through screening, the MICP process is tested from two aspects of rock content and particle size. The resu...
Cracking on the surface of soda saline-alkali soil is very common. In most previous studies, spectral prediction models of soil salinity were less accurate since spectral measurements were usually performed on 2 mm soil samples which cannot represent...
Soil and rock mixtures are complicated geomaterials that are characterized by both continuity and discontinuity. A homogeneous model cannot take into consideration the interactions between rocks and soil, which could lead to misjudgments of the mecha...
The rapid growth in waste tire disposal has become a severe environmental concern in recent decades. Recycling rubber and steel fibers from wasted tires as construction materials helps counteract this imminent environmental crisis, mainly improving t...
Compressed stabilized earth blocks (CSEBs) offer a cheaper and environmentally sustainable alternative to traditional building materials for construction. In addition to addressing waste disposal difficulties, the inclusion of waste additives may imp...
Soil erosion, a global problem, degrades land quality and increases pollution and sedimentation in bodies of water. This study propounds a new material to mitigate soil erosion using rice straw-based polyurethane foam (RSPF) blocks as a potential rep...
This exploratory study compared early-winter thermal conditions in east–west (E-W) and north–south (N-S) tomato ridge blocks within one Chinese solar greenhouse from 22 November to 3 December 2025. A thin-film partition separated the bloc...
Soil-rock mixtures (S-RMs), as a kind of special engineering geological material, need to be studied because of the special structure and complex movement mechanism of their rock blocks, their physical and mechanical properties, and the factors under...
Natural hydraulic lime soil has good mechanical properties; as an earthen ruin restoration material, its durability is insufficient. Despite natural hydraulic lime being a topic that has been studied for several years from different researchers, it h...
In this study, the load distribution of the piles in the pile group was investigated in the case of the pile raft foundations failure under the effect of vertical loads in cohesive soils. For this purpose, loading tests were carried out on model pile...
In this study, Qinghai silty clay was hydrophobically modified, and its engineering properties, including water-blocking performance, strength characteristics, and durability, were investigated under varying hydrophobic agent contents and compaction...
The talus-like rock mass is a special kind of geomaterial widely distributed in southwestern China, which has induced serious engineering disasters for tunneling engineering. However, the mechanical behavior of the talus-like rock mass remains unclea...
This study employed fiber and geopolymer to enhance the engineering performance of coarse-grained fillers. By conducting a series of comparative mechanical tests, the ideal mass mixing ratio design of geopolymer and fiber was investigated first. Then...
Soil can be amended with cement, lime, fly ash and other curing agents after diesel contamination. In this study, a diesel-contaminated granite residual soil with an oil content of 9% was selected and amended with cement, lime and fly ash as curing a...
In the exploration tunnels of the Xiageliao landslide, slide failures were found not only inside the slip soil but also on the contact surface between the slip soil and the tuff. The undisturbed slip soil was collected from the exploration tunnel for...
Depth-resolved mechanical responses of rooted forest soils are difficult to interpret because root properties and soil state can vary together with sampling depth. This study tested whether a common within-soil depth ordering of apparent shear-streng...
Subsoiling is an important technology in conservation tillage. The disturbance characteristics of paddy soil were simulated by smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) in this paper in order to explore the optimal tillage depth of paddy soil in a rice&n...
Using dehydrated silt soil as a raw material to produce ceramsite for ceramsite concrete blocks is a promising approach from both environmental and economic aspects. In this paper, flocculant polyacrylamide (PAM) was investigated to dehydrate the sil...
Soil strengthening with hydraulic binders has gained popularity in recent years and provides an alternative to traditional methods, both for foundation reinforcement and for retaining walls. In many cases, columns, walls, or soil-cement mix blocks re...
This paper critically compares the use of laboratory tests against in situ tests combined with numerical seepage modeling to determine the hydraulic conductivity of natural soil deposits. Laboratory determination of hydraulic conductivity used the co...
Development and population growth have made using shallow buried pipes in urban areas, highways, and subways inevitable. In this study, the performance and behavior of shallow unplasticized polyvinyl chloride (uPVC) pipes buried in sand reinforced wi...
To address the fact that existing studies may not be able to accurately describe the discrete element parameters of the soil during the potato harvesting period and to improve the accuracy of the potato harvesting equipment simulation studies, this s...
Bentonite slurry is frequently used as a support fluid in the construction of drilled shafts. During the piling process, the slurry acts as a sealant and slightly penetrates the nearby soil. However, the degree to which bentonite slurry penetrates th...
Soil mix cut-off walls have been increasingly used for containment of organic contaminants in polluted land. However, the mixed soil is susceptible to deterioration due to aggressive environmental and mechanical stresses, leading to crack-originated...
In order to solve the problems of blocking the drainage ditch and reducing the soil flatness caused by soil accumulation when using compound planter with plowshare to ditch, a spiral soil separation mechanism (SSSM) is designed. The SSSM is analyzed....
Salt-affected soil constrains maize establishment, and rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere responses to soil biochar remain difficult to establish. We evaluated soil physical and nitrogen properties, qPCR marker genes, 16S and ITS communities, and molecu...
Numerical simulations of rockfall trajectories are a standard procedure for evaluating rockfall hazards. For these simulations, corresponding software codes must be calibrated and evaluated based on field data. This study addresses methods of repeata...
We present an autonomous sensor to measure soil water content that uses a single heat pulse probe based on a transistor encapsulated in a porous block. The sensor uses a bipolar junction transistor, which performs as both a heating and temperature-se...
A series of experimental flow tests for artificial block-in-matrix-soils (bimsoils) samples with various slenderness ratios were performed to study the Non-Darcy groundwater flow characteristics. The variations of seepage velocity, permeability coeff...
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