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Zuhier Alakayleh, Xing Fang and T. Prabhakar Clement
This study aims at furthering our understanding of the Modified Philip?Dunne Infiltrometer (MPDI), which is used to determine the saturated hydraulic conductivity Ks and the Green?Ampt suction head ? at the wetting front. We have developed a forward-mode...
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Francesco Fusco, Pantaleone De Vita, Benjamin B. Mirus, Rex L. Baum, Vincenzo Allocca, Rita Tufano, Enrico Di Clemente and Domenico Calcaterra
On the 4th and 5th of March 2005, about 100 rainfall-induced landslides occurred along volcanic slopes of Camaldoli Hill in Naples, Italy. These started as soil slips in the upper substratum of incoherent and welded volcaniclastic deposits, then evolved ...
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Qi Gu, Tianfeng Gu, Dengfei Zhang, Jiading Wang and Tao Xiao
Physical model experiments are increasingly applied in the study of the water infiltration law in loess with roots. In the past, due to differences in study objects and the limitations of measuring techniques, the infiltration law in loess with roots is ...
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Lilai Jin, Sarah J. Higgins, James A. Thompson, Michael P. Strager, Sean E. Collins and Jason A. Hubbart
Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat) is a hydrologic flux parameter commonly used to determine water movement through the saturated soil zone. Understanding the influences of land-use-specific Ksat on the model estimation error of water balance compon...
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Davide Fronzi, Gagan Narang, Alessandro Galdelli, Alessandro Pepi, Adriano Mancini and Alberto Tazioli
Forecasting of water availability has become of increasing interest in recent decades, especially due to growing human pressure and climate change, affecting groundwater resources towards a perceivable depletion. Numerous research papers developed at var...
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Yin Gu, Heyu Chen, Xin Bao, Zhiwei Jiang and Yongfeng Chen
With the increasing construction of undersea tunnels in seismic-prone areas, accurately assessing their response to seismic conditions is crucial. To grasp the dynamic response of undersea tunnel structures to seismic waves, the shaking table test of wat...
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Ziran Zhang and Maosheng Zhang
Describing the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated soil is very important in predicting water transport. Most current models have complex forms and generally need to be calibrated by the measured unsaturated hydraulic conductivity curve. A simple model...
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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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Aaron A. Akin, Gia Nguyen and Aleksey Y. Sheshukov
Soil erosion by water on agricultural hillslopes leads to numerous environmental problems including reservoir sedimentation, loss of agricultural land, declines in drinking water quality, and requires deep understanding of underlying physical processes f...
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Bicheng Zhou, Anatoly V. Brouchkov and Jiabo Hu
Frost heaving in soils is a primary cause of engineering failures in cold regions. Although extensive experimental and numerical research has focused on the deformation caused by frost heaving, there is a notable lack of numerical investigations into the...
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