supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41877267,41877260);the Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Science(Grant No.XDA13010201).
Catastrophic failure in engineering structures of island reefs would occur when the tertiary creep initiates in coral reef limestone with a transition from short-to long-term load.Due to the complexity of biological s...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52125903);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2023M730367);the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Public Welfare Research Institutes of China(Grant No.CKSF2023323/YT).
To investigate the long-term stability of deep rocks,a three-dimensional(3D)time-dependent model that accounts for excavation-induced damage and complex stress state is developed.This model comprises three main compon...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12302503 and U20A20266);Scientific and Technological Research Projects in Sichuan Province,China(Grant No.2023ZYD0154).
In the context of repositories for nuclear waste,understanding the behavior of gas migration through clayey rocks with inherent anisotropy is crucial for assessing the safety of geological disposal facilities.The prim...
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41972284 and 42090054);This work was also supported by the State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection Independent Research Project(Grant No.SKLGP2020Z005).
Geomorphological features are commonly used to identify potential landslides.Nevertheless,overemphasis on these features could lead to misjudgment.This research proposes a process-oriented approach for potential lands...
This research work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.52078182 and 41877255);the Tianjin Municipal Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.20JCYBJC00630).Their financial support is gratefully acknowledged.
To date,few models are available in the literature to consider the creep behavior of geosynthetics when predicting the lateral deformation(d)of geosynthetics-reinforced soil(GRS)retaining walls.In this study,a general...
Authors are thankful to Dr.Chen Xu of Ningbo University for his instructive discussions.The authors are also grateful for the support provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41972274 and 42207176);Ningbo Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.2022J116)for this research work.
Excavation and control of tunneling responses in swelling soft-rock tunnels of Sichuan-Tibet railway under seepage conditions were studied.For this,a fractional viscoplastic(FVP)model for swelling soft rocks was estab...
This paper is dedicated to Benedito Bueno(in memoriam),a brilliant researcher and former professor at University of São Paulo,to whom the authors are indebted for his vision and enormous contribution during the development of this work.This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior(CAPES),Brazil(finance code 001).
A new experimental approach to assess the impact of soil confinement on the long-term behavior of geosynthetics is presented in this paper.The experimental technique described herein includes a novel laboratory appara...
In the context of the Cigeo project,the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency(Andra)is studying the behaviour of a deep geological facility for radioactive waste deposit in the CallovoOxfordian(COx)clays...
Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Los Andes University in Colombia for their technical and financial support
This paper presents the mechanical behaviors of the lacustrine deposit,a representative soil in Bogota,Colombia.Initially,the physical characterization of the deposit is performed via laboratory tests (grain size dist...
the EPSRC for their funding to undertake this research
This paper draws lessons learnt from a comprehensive case study in overconsolidated clay. Apart from the introduction of the case study, including field measurements, the paper draws on the observations and a three-di...