Abstract: A typical sandy mudstone from the deep-buried roadway of the Kouzidong coal mine was taken as the research object. Based on the micro-mesoscopic experiments combining the acoustic emission (AE) and digital speckle correlation ...

Abstract: Rapid urbanization accompanied with socioeconomic transformation in China has resulted in significant changes in urban–rural construction land and human–land relationships. Understanding the spatiotemporal characteristics ...

Abstract: A series of oedometer tests was performed on binary sand–bentonite mixtures considering both the effect of the sand mass fraction and the initial water content of the bentonite matrix. The experimental data reveal that the ...