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  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,950 Views
15 Pages

Intensifying soil health means managing soils to enable sustainable crop production and improved environmental impact. This paper discusses soil health intensification by reviewing studies on the relationship between soil structure, soil organic matt...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,627 Views
39 Pages

19 November 2025

The effect of an earthquake on any structure is primarily determined by both its inherent properties and the surrounding environmental conditions. When seismic waves pass through different media, their characteristics and properties, such as amplitud...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,416 Views
9 Pages

Effect of Soil Washing with Ferric Chloride on Cadmium Removal and Soil Structure

  • Jing Dong,
  • Qi Sun,
  • Xue Zhang,
  • Yuan Zhou,
  • Longchao Xia and
  • Jin Yuan

19 November 2021

In China, arable soils contaminated with cadmium (Cd) threaten human health. Ferric chloride (FeCl3) is a highly efficient agent that can remove Cd from contaminated soils. However, it is unknown whether FeCl3 damages the soil structure and consequen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,935 Views
29 Pages

In many tasks of railway vibration, the structure, that is, the track, a bridge, and a nearby building and its floors, is coupled to the soil, and the soil–structure interaction and the damping by the soil should be included in the analysis to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,629 Views
18 Pages

Frozen soil may cause structures to have different damage statuses, as revealed by earthquakes in northeastern China. ABAQUS (2019), a numerical simulation software application, was adopted to systematically and deeply study the structural seismic re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,195 Views
14 Pages

24 December 2022

After the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, whether the structural safety of the nuclear power plant (NPP) can be guaranteed under an earthquake has been of wide concern. Automatic seismic trip systems (ASTS) have been deployed in NPPs. There are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,106 Views
19 Pages

31 December 2019

The dynamic structure-soil-structure interaction (SSSI) involving three adjacent structures with pile-raft foundations arranged along the east-west direction in a viscoelastic half-space is numerically studied under earthquake excitation. The directi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,007 Views
40 Pages

A Review of Soil Constitutive Models for Simulating Dynamic Soil–Structure Interaction Processes Under Impact Loading

  • Tewodros Y. Yosef,
  • Chen Fang,
  • Ronald K. Faller,
  • Seunghee Kim,
  • Qusai A. Alomari,
  • Mojtaba Atash Bahar and
  • Gnyarienn Selva Kumar

The accurate modeling of dynamic soil–structure interaction processes under impact loading is critical for advancing the design of soil-embedded barrier systems. Full-scale crash testing remains the benchmark for evaluating barrier performance;...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,038 Views
16 Pages

1 December 2017

Pounding phenomena considering structure–soil–structure interaction (SSSI) under seismic loads are investigated in this paper. Based on a practical engineering project, this work presents a three-dimensional finite element numerical simulation method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,222 Views
30 Pages

31 May 2023

An improved Penzien model is proposed in this paper as a simplified model of soil–pile–structure interaction. The dynamic nonlinearity of soil under earthquake excitation is simulated by ANSYS in a free-field model and added to the origin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
862 Views
18 Pages

Research into the Mechanical Tillage Regulation Mechanisms of the Soil Structure in Black Soil Paddy Fields

  • Qiuju Wang,
  • Bingqi Bai,
  • Yuping Liu,
  • Baoguang Wu,
  • Jingyang Li and
  • Jiahe Zou

This study investigated the impact of the response mechanism of tillage construction on paddy yield in black soil fields by adopting four mechanical tillage techniques, namely, rotary tillage (RT), shallow plowing (SP), deep plowing (DP), and culvert...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,865 Views
16 Pages

23 July 2024

The process of soil moisture phase transitions (SMPT) under freeze–thaw cycling is considered a key factor driving changes in soil pore structure. However, there is still no consensus on which indicators related to SMPT affect the soil pore str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,105 Views
12 Pages

Changes in Soil C:N:P Stoichiometry and Microbial Structure along Soil Depth in Two Forest Soils

  • Lei Hu,
  • Luji Ade,
  • Xinwei Wu,
  • Hongbiao Zi,
  • Xueping Luo and
  • Changting Wang

31 January 2019

The effects of interactions of soil type and soil depth on soil C:N:P stoichiometry and microorganisms are poorly understood. In this study, soil samples (0–10, 10–20, 20–30, 30–50, 50–100 cm) were collected from two soi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,157 Views
26 Pages

4 February 2019

In a megacity, structure response during an earthquake could be increased or decreased due to effects from neighboring structures, through structure-soil-structure interaction (SSSI). In the present study, a series of dynamic geotechnical centrifuge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,699 Views
28 Pages

Nonlinear Soil–Pile–Structure Interaction Behaviour of Marine Jetty Structures

  • Marios Koronides,
  • Constantine Michailides and
  • Toula Onoufriou

Nonlinear soil–pile–structure interaction (SPSI) phenomena are known to play a vital role in the response of bottom-fixed marine structures. For such structures, these phenomena are commonly considered by the imposition of p-y, τ-z, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,653 Views
17 Pages

Soil compaction is a major concern in the context of ensuring sustainable forest and agricultural management practices. Productivity gains during the last decades were also achieved by increasing mechanization. This change was associated with growing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,339 Views
24 Pages

24 October 2023

The double-story isolation structure is a novel development based on the mid-story isolation structure. To accurately reflect the seismic response of the double-story isolation structure, this study considers a dynamic elastoplastic analysis model th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,624 Views
18 Pages

Evaluation of Soil–Structure Interaction in Structure Models via Shaking Table Test

  • Seongnoh Ahn,
  • Gun Park,
  • Hyungchul Yoon,
  • Jae-Hyeok Han and
  • Jongwon Jung

29 April 2021

Modeling the soil–structure interaction (SSI) in seismic design involves the use of soil response curves for single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) structures; however, real structures have multiple degrees of freedom (MDOF). In this study, shaking-table-de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,862 Views
15 Pages

25 September 2022

Resilience has become an interesting parameter to assess the seismic risk connected with functionality of structures. In this regard, losses due to earthquakes may be significantly reduced by applying isolation at the base of the structures. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,245 Views
23 Pages

Design and Parameter Optimization of the Soil-Structure Interaction on Structures with Electromagnetic Damper

  • Xiaofang Kang,
  • Zongqin Wu,
  • Jian Wu,
  • Qiwen Huang,
  • Boyang Ou and
  • Shancheng Lei

Currently, the application of electromagnetic dampers in structural vibration control and energy harvesting has become increasingly widespread. The optimization research of electromagnetic dampers in building design has also received more attention....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,267 Views
16 Pages

14 June 2025

Under the global climate change context, the probability of extreme flood events has substantially increased. Nevertheless, our understanding of the post-flood dynamics in wetland ecosystems, particularly regarding soil biogeochemistry and microbiota...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,197 Views
17 Pages

28 February 2025

To assess the effects of prolonged no-tillage practices on soil health and crop output, an 18-year field study was carried out in the black soil region of Northeast China. We investigated the variations in soil physicochemical properties, bacterial c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
852 Views
14 Pages

Soil Structure Characteristics in Three Mountainous Regions in Bulgaria Under Different Land Uses

  • Milena Kercheva,
  • Tsvetina Paparkova,
  • Emil Dimitrov,
  • Katerina Doneva,
  • Kostadinka Nedyalkova,
  • Jonita Perfanova,
  • Rosica Sechkova,
  • Emiliya Velizarova and
  • Maria Glushkova

26 June 2025

Soil structure has an important role in storing and transporting substances, providing natural habitats for soil microorganisms, and allowing chemical reactions in the soil. A complex investigation on factors affecting soil structure characteristics...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,792 Views
16 Pages

23 April 2019

Microbial communities and their associated enzyme activities play key roles in carbon cycling in ecosystems. Forest thinning is likely to change the soil properties and feedbacks on the structure and function of microbial communities, consequently af...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,124 Views
17 Pages

Soil Structure Stability under Different Land Uses in Association with Polyacrylamide Effects

  • Amrakh I. Mamedov,
  • Atsushi Tsunekawa,
  • Nigussie Haregeweyn,
  • Mitsuru Tsubo,
  • Haruyuki Fujimaki,
  • Takayuki Kawai,
  • Birhanu Kebede,
  • Temesgen Mulualem,
  • Getu Abebe and
  • Guy J. Levy
  • + 1 author

29 January 2021

Soil structural stability is a vital aspect of soil quality and functions, and of maintaining sustainable land management. The objective of this study was to compare the contribution of four long-term land-use systems (crop, bush, grass, and forest)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,695 Views
15 Pages

30 December 2024

Compaction leads to reduced crop yields, as the soil structure is destroyed. As soil structures respond differently to different degrees of compaction stress, early warnings for the risk of soil compaction caused by agricultural machinery need to be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
4,457 Views
21 Pages

Impact of Different Biochars on Microbial Community Structure in the Rhizospheric Soil of Rice Grown in Albic Soil

  • Dawei Yin,
  • Hongyu Li,
  • Haize Wang,
  • Xiaohong Guo,
  • Zhihui Wang,
  • Yandong Lv,
  • Guohua Ding,
  • Liang Jin and
  • Yu Lan

7 August 2021

The purpose of this study was to clarify the effects of biochar on the diversity of bacteria and fungi in the rice root zone and to reveal the changes in soil microbial community structure in the root zone after biochar application to provide a scien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,054 Views
21 Pages

12 July 2024

This paper established a numerical model for the structure system in a soil–structure interaction using MATLAB 23.2 and ANSYS 24.1 software and validated the effectiveness and accuracy of a simplified nonlinear calculation model for soil–...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,917 Views
9 Pages

The strength of the soil–structure interface can be mobilised when subjected to cyclic loading. To capture the cyclic mobilisation of the soil–structure interface, an advanced elastoplastic constitutive model is developed within the frame...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,549 Views
20 Pages

19 September 2024

The current literature analyzing the dynamic response of coupled pipelines neglects the crucial interplay between the pipelines themselves and these constraints. This overlooked interaction has substantial influence on the fluid–structure coupl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,533 Views
15 Pages

Response of Soil Nematode Community Structure and Function to Monocultures of Pumpkin and Melon

  • Dan Zhao,
  • Yao Wang,
  • Ling Wen,
  • Hongyun Qu,
  • Zuobiao Zhang,
  • Hui Zhang,
  • Yunhe Jia,
  • Juan Wang,
  • Yixin Feng and
  • Fengjuan Pan
  • + 2 authors

12 January 2022

It is well known that crop monoculture can induce negative effects on soil ecosystems and crop productivity. However, little is known about how vegetable monoculture affects the soil nematode community structure and its relationship with vegetable yi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,809 Views
23 Pages

This study aims to analytically implement base isolation with soil–structure interaction (SSI) on a sample structure and to develop a very simple solution to add these combined effects into the mass, damping and stiffness matrices of the struct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
834 Views
16 Pages

28 May 2025

Anthropogenic activities on soil layers contribute to reworking and eventual modification, which, in most cases, are detrimental to the soil. Going by the significance of soil to life in many ramifications, it is imperative that its consistent assess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,505 Views
13 Pages

The black soil of Northeast China has a strong adhesion ability because of its unique physical properties, and the soil often adheres to the surface of the grouser shoes of tracked vehicles during the operation. The adhesion performance depends large...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
18,163 Views
15 Pages

Critical Hydraulic Gradient of Internal Erosion at the Soil–Structure Interface

  • Quanyi Xie,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Bo Han,
  • Hongtao Li,
  • Yuying Li and
  • Xuanzheng Li

18 July 2018

Internal erosion at soil–structure interfaces is a dangerous failure pattern in earth-fill water-retaining structures. However, existing studies concentrate on the investigations of internal erosion by assuming homogeneous materials, while igno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,205 Views
15 Pages

Rice-Fish Co-Culture Promotes Soil Carbon Sequestration Through Alterations in Soil Microbial Community Structure

  • Daolin Sun,
  • Hongjun Zheng,
  • Zhaoji Shi,
  • Jiaen Zhang,
  • Qi Jia,
  • Xing Liu,
  • Min Zhao,
  • Yuting Chen,
  • Qi Chen and
  • Mingzhu Luo

27 April 2025

The high-input production mode of rice monoculture (RM) has caused severe soil degradation and biodiversity loss, necessitating a transition toward more sustainable practices. The traditional rice-fish co-culture (RF) may provide valuable insights fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,489 Views
10 Pages

Maximum Admissible Slip of Tractor Wheels without Disturbing the Soil Structure

  • Volodymyr Bulgakov,
  • Aivars Aboltins,
  • Hristo Beloev,
  • Volodymyr Nadykto,
  • Volodymyr Kyurchev,
  • Valerii Adamchuk and
  • Viktor Kaminskiy

27 July 2021

One of the most important parameters that characterize the traction-coupling properties of a wheeled tractor is its slip. The more tractor’s gross traction exists, the higher its traction-coupling properties are. However, this gross traction should n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,713 Views
25 Pages

In precedent years mostly, though rarely nowadays, shear deformable structures were constructed across the globe. Also, the soil is deformed as a shear cantilever, which means that the shear forces and stresses are more prominent than the respective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,021 Views
21 Pages

24 July 2025

Seismic responses of Nuclear Island (NI) structures have great significance in the foundation adaptability analysis and the seismic design of equipment. However, with the increasing complexity of nuclear power site conditions, establishing a reasonab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,166 Views
13 Pages

Evaluation of the Use of Lime and Nanosilica for the Improvement of Clay Soil Structure and Degradation of Hydrocarbons

  • Adriana Muente,
  • Isabel Cipriani-Ávila,
  • Karina García-Villacís,
  • Verónica Pinos-Veléz,
  • Daniel Hidalgo-Lasso,
  • Pablo Ruíz and
  • Verónica Luna

1 October 2022

Soil structure is an important key in the bioremediation process; for instance, clay soils tend to have high absorption of pollutants and low rates of bioremediation due to their high plasticity and oxygen restrictions. This work assesses seven diffe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,271 Views
27 Pages

Numerical Study of the Nonlinear Soil–Pile–Structure Interaction Effects on the Lateral Response of Marine Jetties

  • Marios Koronides,
  • Constantine Michailides,
  • Panagiotis Stylianidis and
  • Toula Onoufriou

17 November 2024

This study presents three-dimensional finite element analyses of two marine structures subjected to lateral loading to approximate environmental forces (e.g., wind, waves, currents, earthquakes). The first structure is a marine jetty supported by twe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,283 Views
13 Pages

Analysis of the Effect of Tilling and Crop Type on Soil Structure Using 3D Laser Profilometry

  • Bianca B. Barreto,
  • Fernando P. Rivera,
  • Blair M. McKenzie,
  • Katharine Preedy,
  • Yangminghao Liu,
  • Lionel X. Dupuy,
  • Elisângela Ribeiro and
  • Roberto A. Braga

31 October 2023

Background and aim: Soil structure is an important indicator of the quality of soil, but detecting the early signs of soil degradation from soil structure is difficult. Developing precise instruments able to diagnose soil structure quickly is therefo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,326 Views
16 Pages

Effects of Organic Amendments on Soil Pore Structure under Waterlogging Stress

  • Kefan Xuan,
  • Xiaopeng Li,
  • Jiabao Zhang,
  • Yifei Jiang,
  • Bin Ma and
  • Jianli Liu

18 January 2023

Organic amendments are a proven method of reducing soil erosion. However, the effect of organic additives on the pore properties of soils waterlogged by extreme rainfall has been minimally investigated. In this study, we collected rainfall data, esta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,237 Views
28 Pages

Numerical Investigation of Seismic Soil–Structure–Excavation Interaction in Sand

  • Tarek N. Salem,
  • Mahmoud S. Elmahdy,
  • Dušan Katunský,
  • Erika Dolníková and
  • Ahmed Abu El Ela

16 October 2025

The dynamic loads affecting earth-retaining structures may increase in seismically active regions. Therefore, studying the soil–structure interaction among the soil, shoring systems, and adjacent structures is crucial. However, there is limited...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,053 Views
20 Pages

4 September 2024

This study investigates the seismic response of two 20-story adjacent reinforced concrete structures with differing lateral load-bearing systems, emphasizing the influence of soil–structure interaction. In total, 72 numerical models explored th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,201 Views
17 Pages

Forest Structure and Fine Root Biomass Influence Soil CO2 Efflux in Temperate Forests under Drought

  • Antonios Apostolakis,
  • Ingo Schöning,
  • Beate Michalzik,
  • Christian Ammer,
  • Peter Schall,
  • Falk Hänsel,
  • Thomas Nauss,
  • Susan Trumbore and
  • Marion Schrumpf

17 February 2023

Soil respiration is rarely studied at the landscape scale where forest and soil properties can be important drivers. We performed forest and soil inventories in 150 temperate forest sites in three German landscapes and measured in situ soil CO2 efflu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,797 Views
16 Pages

2 December 2024

Understanding the effects of salinity on soil structure and hydraulic properties is critical for addressing environmental challenges in coastal saline and sodic areas. In this study, soil samples were collected from a coastal region in eastern China...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
594 Views
21 Pages

Study on the Improved Black Soil Structure Under Biological Tillage on Brassica chinensis L. Yield

  • Baoguang Wu,
  • Pu Chen,
  • Zhipeng Yin,
  • Shun Xu,
  • Yuping Liu,
  • Qiuju Wang,
  • Zhenyu Wang and
  • Junting Ye

30 October 2025

The degradation of soil structure in black soils has become a key factor limiting the productivity of farmland ecosystems. However, systematic studies on restoring soil physical properties and improving crop yields through biological tillage remain s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
565 Views
30 Pages

25 November 2025

Accurate seismic safety assessment of nuclear power plant (NPP) structures with pile foundations on soft soil sites requires consideration of soil nonlinearity and pile–soil–structure interaction (PSSI). This study develops an efficient p...

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