Groundwater zone formation in the soil layers of a headwater catchment is an important factor that controls volumetric and chemical changes in streamflow; it also induces shallow landslides. Previous studies have suggested that the groundwater zone i...
Plant litter decomposition is a complex, long-term process. The decomposition of litterfall is a major process influencing nutrient balance in forest soil. The soil microbiome is exceptionally diverse and is an essential regulator of litter decomposi...
In the forest land of many European countries, including hemiboreal Latvia, organic soils are considered to be large sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. At the same time, growing efforts are expected in the near future to decrease emissions fr...
Magnoliaceae plants have high ornamental value, resulting in their widespread use in landscaping construction, and play a major role in the ecological functions of soil and water conservation. However, the landscape value of magnolias from the perspe...
Soil reinforcement using rice husk ash and cement is emerging as an effective method for enhancing geotechnical performance in subgrade layers, offering an environmentally friendly, stable, durable, and cost-efficient solution. This study investigate...
This study investigated the geotechnical and geophysical properties of the soil layers at the Missan combined-cycle power plant in Iraq. The data from 69 boreholes, including physical and chemical soil properties, were analyzed. The soil is primarily...
Litter and soil play an important role in influencing hydrological processes and the global water cycle. Artificial afforestation, as a part of vegetation restoration, was constructed in the gully erosion areas of latosol with the objective to preven...
With the expansion of reserve cultivated land resources in coastal saline–alkali areas, the problem of soil salinization is becoming more and more prominent. In order to reveal the influence of different soil media and contact modes on soil wat...
The disposal of rice husk ash (RHA) in rice-producing regions poses critical environmental and public health challenges. However, RHA’s high amorphous silica content offers significant potential for soil stabilization, particularly in improving...
Agricultural drought assessment is based on soil moisture deficit during the plant-growing season. The available long-term in situ soil moisture data can be used to evaluate the drought indices’ performance. Drought indices have different sensi...
Ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi play pivotal roles in ecosystem functioning. Here, we studied the vertical differentiation of root-associated fungi (RAF) in temperate forests. We analysed RAF assemblages in the organic and mineral soil from 15...
High-viscosity stratified strata, characterized by complex geotechnical properties such as strong cohesion, low permeability, and pronounced layered structures, exhibit significant lateral friction resistance and high-end resistance during steel shee...
The climate of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is distinct. Given the large temperature difference between day and night, drought in perennial years, low rainfall and large evaporation volume, the frozen soil in some areas of the Qinghai–Tibet...
Capillary rise tests were conducted on soil columns containing of three layers of sandy soils with coarser over finer over coarser sandy soil to investigate the effect of the relatively finer soil interlayer. The capillary rise height, rate, and wate...
In the construction of deep foundation pits, early warning measures are essential to reduce construction risks and prevent personnel injuries. In underground structure and pressure analysis, soil layer and support structure data are indispensable. Th...
Pile buckling is infrequent, but sometimes it can occur in slender piles (i.e., micropiles) driven into soils with soft layers and/or voids. Buckling analysis of piles becomes more complex if the pile is surrounded by multi-layered soil. In this case...
The limited quantity of irrigation water in Xinjiang has hindered agricultural development in the region and water-saving irrigation technologies are crucial to addressing this water shortage. Vertical tube irrigation, a type of subsurface irrigation...
Soil moisture distribution plays a significant role in soil erosion, evapotranspiration, and overland flow. Infiltration is a main component of the hydrological cycle, and simulations of soil moisture can improve infiltration process modeling. Differ...
So far, little attention has been paid to the investigation on the seismic failure mechanisms of flexible concrete pile groups embedded in the layered soft soil profiles considering the material non-linearities of soil and concrete piles. The purpose...
Gaps by thinning can have different microclimatic environments compared to surrounding areas, depending on the size of the gap. In addition, gaps can play important roles in biological dynamics, nutrient cycling, and seedling regeneration. The impact...
Land surface soil moisture (SSM) is crucial in research and applications in hydrology, ecology, and meteorology. A novel SSM retrieval model, based on the diurnal cycles of land surface temperature (LST) and net surface shortwave radiation (NSSR), ha...
Marine soft soil foundation is a double-layer foundation structure with a crust layer and soft substratum. Moreover, it is common that there are various forms of drainage. Accordingly, based on Terzaghi’s consolidation theory and the continuous...
Based on the soil nonlinearity assumptions proposed by Mesri, the one-dimensional nonlinear consolidation of double-layered soil is investigated. To better align with engineering reality, a continuous drainage boundary is introduced, bolstering the r...
Scouring can reduce the strength and rigidity of the pile–soil system and become one of the major causes for the failure of the structure of the partially-embedded single pile. The stratification of the soil fields has a significant influence o...
Layered deposited-soil slopes are widely distributed in mountainous terrain. The rainfall-induced instability of layered deposited-soil slopes is not only controlled by the unsaturated infiltration process but also by the seepage-induced internal-ero...
Study on viscoelastic properties of the multi-layered coarse-grained soil (CGS) is very important for safety assessment and disaster prevention of subgrade engineering. Current research work is mainly focused on the one-layered CGS and the actual peb...
Numerous studies have been reported in the published literature on analytical solutions for a vertically loaded pile installed in a homogeneous single soil layer. However, piles are rarely installed in an ideal homogeneous single soil layer. This stu...
The static problem of a layered isotropic elastic body is a very useful research subject in relation to the analysis and design of foundation works. Due to the complexity of the problem, there is no analytical solution to the problem so far. This stu...
The heterogeneity of layered soils affects the transport processes of water in the vadose zone. However, the mechanism of soil moisture transport in the vadose zone under heterogeneous media conditions, especially the three-dimensional transport mech...
The variability in soil hydrothermal conditions generally contributes to the diverse distribution of vegetation cover types and growth characteristics. Previous research primarily focused on soil moisture alone or the average values of soil hydrother...
The vertical vibration of a viscoelastic pile immersed in arbitrarily layered soil is investigated by taking the interaction among pile, pile surrounding soil (PSS) and pile end soil (PES) into account. Firstly, considering both the stratification an...
The deterioration of soil-cement in a saline environment leads to a reduction in strength and an increase in permeability. Effective methods of determining the deteriorated layer permeability coefficient of soil-cement are currently lacking. A labora...
Incorporating the influence of soil layering and local variability into the parameterizations of physics-based numerical models for distributed landslide susceptibility assessments remains a challenge. Typical applications employ substantial simplifi...
A tapered pile (TP) is a new type of pile with a good bearing capacity, and scholars have conducted in-depth research on its static bearing characteristics. However, there is relatively little research on its dynamic bearing characteristics. In this...
Grouting, as a widely applicable and versatile foundation treatment technology, plays a crucial role in addressing seepage control problems in cover layers due to its flexibility and convenience. The effectiveness of grouting largely depends on slurr...
Several studies have been reported in published literature on analytical solutions for a laterally loaded pile installed in a homogeneous single soil layer. However, piles are rarely installed in an ideal homogeneous single soil layer. The present st...
Suction anchors are widely used in marine engineering because of their easy installation, cost-effectiveness, and excellent load-bearing capacity. However, existing research on their bearing capacity has primarily focused on homogeneous soils, which...
The snow melting and runoff process in the black soil area of Northeast China has led to soil quality degradation in farmland, posing a threat to sustainable agricultural development. To investigate the regulatory effect of tillage layer construction...
Time-lapse ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys, combined with automated infiltration experiments, provide a non-invasive approach for investigating the distribution of infiltrated water within the soil medium and creating three-dimensional images...
In geotechnical engineering, the consolidation of unsaturated soil is a common issue of great interest. Considering the multi-layered property and impeded drainage boundary condition of the soil stratum in real engineering, this study aimed to develo...
Firstly, based on one-dimensional Terzaghi consolidation theory, we derived and established the analytical solution of excess pore water pressure and average consolidation degree of double-layered foundation, which can reflect the effect of fiber rei...
Rocks and soil excavated at construction sites can contain naturally occurring toxic substances. One low-cost means of managing the environmental burden posed by leaching of these substances is the attenuation layer method, which uses an adsorbent po...
Freeze-thaw (FT) and moisture dynamics within the soil active layer are critical elements of boreal, arctic and alpine ecosystems, and environmental change assessments. We evaluated the potential for detecting dielectric changes within different soil...
Grapevine root distribution and density influence mineral and water absorption and are affected by soil management and the use of cover crops. This study, conducted in a ten-year-old commercial Mediterranean vineyard with desiccant-managed inter-rows...
Due to the complex urban geological environment and physicochemical interactions, the physical and mechanical parameters of the cohesive soil layer in the adjacent construction area show strong spatial variability and correlation. In addition, the ac...
The fluid-saturated porous continuous barrier has a better vibration isolation effect than the single-phase solid continuous barrier, and layer-forming saturated soils will have an impact on the vibration isolation effect of the barriers due to their...
This paper aims to estimate the stability of tunnel faces in inclined layered soils under steady unsaturated seepage conditions, comparing the degree of correlation between the stability of the tunnel face and the influence of three types of paramete...
Composite erosion caused by snowmelt and rainfall causes considerable soil loss during spring thawing. However, research on the impact of frozen soil layers (FSL) on composite erosion is lacking. Therefore, indoor simulation experiments were conducte...
The p-y curve method can be used to describe the stress–strain relationship of soil under elastic, elastoplastic, and plastic states, and is more accurate than other methods in dealing with the nonlinearity of pile–soil interaction. Howev...
The Loess Plateau is one land-atmosphere coupling hotspot. Soil moisture has an influence on atmospheric boundary layer development under specific early-morning atmospheric thermodynamic structures. This paper investigates the sensitivity of atmosphe...
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