Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of soil particle size on the measurement accuracy of single-point type tactile pressure sensors when used for measuring soil contact stresses. Sensors with two different diameters (Dsens) ...

Abstract: Centrifuge modeling has been considered as an effective means of studying flexural soil–pile interaction, yet the conventional use of elastic material to model an RC pile prototype is unable to reproduce the important ...

Abstract: Plant roots have been shown to improve the soil resistance to liquefaction upon cyclic loading. However, the effect of roots and their orientations on any changes in soil anisotropy and the mechanisms of dissipated energy ...

Abstract: Hydrochar is a biomass-derived carbon-rich material produced by the hydrothermal carbonization process which requires less energy than the pyrolysis production of biochar. The effectiveness of using hydrochar to amend soil ...

Abstract: A novel spatial soil arching (SSA) effect and the arching mechanisms and characteristics of a steep-slope high embankment in a double-V narrowing gully (DVNG) were investigated. First, the consistency between the results ...

Abstract: Small-scale physical model tests have been increasingly used to study the thermomechanical soil–pile interaction, but existing model piles are highly simplified and do not have representative thermal properties or the ...