Bio-mediated geotechnology and its application in geoengineering: Mechanism, approach, and performance

ZH Dong, XH Pan, C Zhu, CS Tang, C Lv, B Liu… - Environmental Earth …, 2024 - Springer
Bio-mediated geotechnology refers to the technology that utilizes various types of microbial
processes to improve the hydro-mechanical behavior of soil and rock, aiming for the …

Partial saturation as a liquefaction countermeasure: a review

SM Seyedi-Viand, EE Eseller-Bayat - Geotechnical and Geological …, 2022 - Springer
The liquefaction or softening of the soils and the potential vulnerability of existing buildings
on liquefiable soils continue to be of major concern to the public because it has repeatedly …

Field trials of microbially induced desaturation in low-plasticity silt

DM Moug, KR Sorenson, A Khosravifar… - … of Geotechnical and …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
Field trials of microbially induced desaturation (MID) were conducted at two sites in Portland,
Oregon underlain by liquefiable fine-grained soils. MID is an emerging method for mitigating …

Soil stabilization with microbially induced desaturation and precipitation (MIDP) by denitrification: a field study

C Zeng, LA Van Paassen, J Zheng… - Acta Geotechnica, 2022 - Springer
A field trial was performed to test the feasibility of microbially induced desaturation and
precipitation (MIDP) by denitrification for the stabilization of a silty soil. Indigenous nitrate …

Microbial-induced desaturation and precipitation in stratified soils with fine sand and silt layers

P Kwon, D Karmacharya, E Kavazanjian Jr, CE Zapata… - Acta Geotechnica, 2024 - Springer
A tank test was performed simulating two-dimensional planar flow conditions at a meter
scale to evaluate the effectiveness of microbial-induced desaturation and precipitation …

A (Simplified) biogeochemical numerical model to predict saturation, porosity and permeability during microbially induced desaturation and precipitation

L Wang, L van Paassen, V Pham… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Microbially Induced Desaturation and Precipitation (MIDP) through denitrification is
an emerging ground improvement method in which indigenous nitrate reducing bacteria are …

Microbial-induced desaturation in stratified soil conditions

EG Stallings Young, N Mahabadi, CE Zapata… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
A feasibility study was performed to assess the potential of microbially induced desaturation
and precipitation (MIDP) through denitrification to reduce the risk of earthquake-induced …

Features of earthquake-induced seabed liquefaction and mitigation strategies of novel marine structures

Y Huang, X Han - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020 - mdpi.com
With the accelerated development of marine engineering, a growing number of marine
structures are being constructed (eg, seabed pipelines, drilling platforms, oil platforms, wind …

Effect of biogenic gas formation through microbial induced desaturation and precipitation on the static response of sands with varied relative density

L Wang, Y Gao, J He, Y Gao… - Journal of Geotechnical …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Several monotonic triaxial consolidated drained (CD) and consolidated undrained (CU)
tests were conducted to investigate the effect of biogenic gas formation through microbial …

Experimental analyses of pore‐size dependent biomineralization in porous media under various flow rate and bacterial density scenarios

Z Yang, Z Dou, A Guadagnini, X Li… - Water Resources …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
We document results of a set of laboratory experiments aimed at exploring impacts of
injection rate and bacterial density on biomineralization across water‐saturated porous …