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Manuel Moya, David Sánchez, José Ángel Romero and José Ramón Villar-García
The loads generated inside agricultural silos under static and dynamic conditions depend on the mechanical properties of the materials stored inside them. Silo calculation methodologies are based on these mechanical properties. Although it is known that ...
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Takahiro Yoshikawa and Toshihiro Noda
Immense liquefaction damage was observed in the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake. It was reported that, in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, the main shock oozed muddy water from the sandy ground and the aftershock which occurred 29 min after the m...
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Tao An, Dong Wang and Xiurong Yang
Gassy clays containing large, discrete gas bubbles are widely spread in deposits in shallow waters. The existence of gas bubbles may impair the original soil structure, resulting in the instability of offshore foundations and the occurrence of submarine ...
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Mingyuan Wang, Jizhu Sun and Yong Wang
As a kind of partially saturated soil often containing dissolved gas with a high degree of saturation (S > 85%), gassy sand sediment widely exists in the marine environment all over the world. Due to the effect of gas dissolution and exsolution on the po...
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Yujing Jiang, Xinpeng Li, Changsheng Wang, Hengjie Luan, Sunhao Zhang, Gang Wang and Pu Wang
Understanding the asperity damage behaviors of joints during shearing is critical for evaluating the stability of deep underground engineering structures. In this paper, we prepared plaster joints and used them for direct shear tests under different norm...
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Weifeng Jin, Ying Tao and Rongzhong Chen
For crushable calcareous sand, the stress-dilatancy curve has a significant turning hook around the peak stress ratio, the hook contains the main features of the loading process, including the phase transformation point and the peak stress ratio point. H...
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Ying Liu, Zhixuan Liang, Zhiyong Liu and Guiping Nie
In offshore engineering, the sand beneath an embankment may be subjected to traffic loads, resulting in a series of engineering issues. The behaviour of the sand beneath the embankment may change under a long-term traffic load. A series of drained cyclic...
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Umer Waqas, Hafiz Muhammad Awais Rashid, Muhammad Farooq Ahmed, Ali Murtaza Rasool and Mohamed Ezzat Al-Atroush
This review paper summarizes the recent and past experimental findings to evaluate the damage characteristics of carbonate rocks subjected to thermal treatment (20?1500 °C). The outcomes of published studies show that the degree of thermal damage in the ...
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Ning Jia, Junwei Liu and Xuetao Wang
The removal of soil during scouring is crucial to the lateral resistance of piles in bridges of railways or highways. In this process, dilatancy of the interface soil induces variation in normal stress, which in turn influences the interface soil lateral...
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Yan Zhang, Xiuli Feng, Shenggui Deng, Chenhao Ding and Tao Liu
Soil dilatancy and partial drainage have great influence on the consolidation coefficient assessment of silty soils with clay content of less than 30% in the Yellow River Delta using the CPTu. This paper discussed the effect of soil dilatancy and partial...
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