Soil column is often investigated in the improvement of dredged slurries. Different from the
smear zone, the soil column forms gradually and has extremely low permeability. This study …

In this paper, the nonlinear consolidation behavior of soft soil with vertical drains considering
well resistance and smear effect under cyclic loadings was investigated. Using the variables …

In this study, analytical solutions of the consolidation of vertical drains combined with
electroosmosis-vacuum-surcharge preloading are derived considering void ratio-dependent …

In this paper, improved physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) with hard constraints
(PINNs-H) are introduced to simulate the variation of the excess pore water pressure in the …

This research deals with the vacuum preloading of fine-grained soft tailings related to the
Sungun copper mine through laboratory tests and theoretical analysis. Vacuum preloading …

Vertical drains combined with vacuum pressure is widely used to accelerate soil
consolidation in land reclamation, where the effective prediction of the consolidation …

The vacuum preloading method is commonly used to improve soft soils; however, it has
rarely been studied from the perspective of energy consumption. The work done by the …

Dredged slurries improved by vacuum preloading methods were found to be still weak
generally after the pore water drainage finished. Three reasons, including nonuniform …

The horizontal strain in the vacuum preloading/dewatering of dredged slurry is significant to
the apparent clogging effect and estimation of surface settlement around a drain; however, it …

In the vacuum treatment of dredged slurries via prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs), both
filtration and consolidation may happen to dredged slurries when subjected to the vacuum …