Three quarters of the world's significant urban centers are located in coastal regions where
clay minerals are prevalent. The microstructures and physico-mechanical properties of clay …

This state-of-the-art covers advances in the constitutive modelling, experimental
investigation and field measurement of suction for unsaturated soils. It consists of three …

For engineering structures with saline soil as a filling material, such as channel slope, road
subgrade, etc., the rich soluble salt in the soil is an important potential factor affecting their …

The unsaturated soil shear strength is a crucial parameter for the evaluation of erosion and
slope stability analysis. In this study, we collected unsaturated and undisturbed soil samples …

Polyethene terephthalate (PET) waste poses major environmental harm which can be
minimized by reusing it in clay soil stabilization. In general, various polymers are known to …

Shear strength of engineered clay barriers is one of the essential parameters for the design
for waste containment facilities. Liquids leaching through these facilities have chemical …

Besides saltwater intrusion and other soil salinity sources, landfill leachate with high electric
conductivity and salinity is one factor affecting the geotechnical properties of soil. This study …

Due to the perennial influence by west wind climate, the loess in Ili, China, is obviously
different from that in the loess plateau of the monsoon area, showing the characteristics of …

Skewed supports complicate load paths in continuous steel I-girder bridges, causing
secondary stresses and differential deformations. For a continuous bridge where tensile …

We developed an experimental program to monitor how interparticle forces control the
mechanical behavior of fine-grained soils when saturation changes from the tightly …