Frozen soil thermal conductivity (λ eff) is a critical thermo-physical property that is required
for environmental, earth science, geotechnical and geo-environmental applications and …

Frozen soil is a complex four-phase porous medium consisting of soil solid/rock, air,
unfrozen/liquid water and ice at the subzero temperatures. Freeze-thaw cycles change the …

Many machine learning algorithms have been applied to determine soil properties in recent
years. However, the prediction performances of thermal conductivity of soils via machine …

Effective thermal conductivity of clay (λ eff) has essential applications in disciplines such as
environmental and earth science, agriculture and engineering. Much work has been done …

The thermal conductivity has an important influence on the geotechnical and
geoenvironmental engineering. Most existing thermal conductivity models appear to …

The thermal property of the scum layer (soil-rock mixtures) has dominant influence on the
heat exchange efficiency between the lower rock layer and the upper environment in the …

A fixed-parameter ETC predictive model was proposed using simple combinatory rules,
based on which the tri-weighted means (arithmetic, geometric and harmonic) of tri-upper …

Soil thermal conductivity is a critical parameter in various fields related to soil heat transfer,
mainly affected by porosity and saturation. In this research, the thermal conductivity of three …

Soil thermal conductivity is a key factor for the soil heat transfer analysis, and is widely
applied in many fields. However, it is difficult to measure the thermal conductivities of various …

Frozen soil thermal conductivity (FSTC, λ eff) is a critical thermophysical property that is
required for a variety of science and engineering applications. Measurements of λ eff in …