The purpose of this paper is to review the development and the state of the art in desiccation
cracking characterization methods and review the desiccation cracking behaviors of soils …

Purpose Soil cracking is a common natural phenomenon. The existence of soil cracks has
significant effects on the engineering properties of clayey soil, and can cause significant …

Evaporation in shallow soil has a great influence on the properties of surface soil. Therefore,
under evaporation conditions, research on the rule and mechanism of heat-water-salt …

Desiccation cracking has a significant influence on the hydro-mechanical behaviour of soils.
Most previous studies focus on the desiccation cracking of slurry soil samples, whereas little …

Evaporation of water from soils is a three-stage process that has great significance in stress
development in exposed geotechnical structures, generation of dusts that can cause …

Infiltration is of great concern in many fields like hydrology, agriculture as well as
geotechnical and geological engineering. This study aims to investigate water infiltration in a …

A novel experimental program was undertaken to explore crack development inside an
expansive soil column under cyclic Wetting and Drying (WD) and its influences on the Soil …

Drought‐induced cracking of soils is of great concern with the advent of global climate
change. The cracking process accelerates the evaporation rate of pore water, lowers the …

The shrinkage potential of clayey soils dominates their volumetric deformation and
microscopic cracking behavior during desiccation processes and has profound practical …

Soil tensile strength is a critical parameter governing the initiation and propagation of tensile
cracking. This study proposes an eco-friendly approach to improve the tensile behavior and …