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...
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...
Interactions between soil, fluids (e.g., water), and structures are intrinsic to most geotechnical problems. However, these can be extremely complex and further understanding is needed in this field. Soil–water–structure interactions can...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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–...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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