The artificial ground freezing (AGF) is one of the most popular ground-support methods.
Driven by its reliability, compatibility with a wide range of ground types, and low impact on …

Ice templating is able to do much more than macroporous, cellular materials. The underlying
phenomenon—the freezing of colloids—is ubiquitous, at a unique intersection of a variety of …

Sand, rice, sugar, snow, cement... Although ubiquitous in our daily lives, granular media still
challenge engineers and fascinate researchers. This book provides the state-of-the-art of the …

The surface of ice exhibits the swath of phase-transition phenomena common to all
materials and as such it acts as an ideal test bed of both theory and experiment. It is readily …

Our understanding of the “long range” electrodynamic, electrostatic, and polar interactions
that dominate the organization of small objects at separations beyond an interatomic bond …

Hydrogel-based soft machines are promising in diverse applications, such as biomedical
electronics and soft robotics. However, current fabrication techniques generally struggle to …

GEOtop is a fine-scale grid-based simulator that represents the heat and water budgets at
and below the soil surface. It describes the three-dimensional water flow in the soil and the …

The freezing/thawing characteristics of three soils with different compositions are
investigated based on the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) proton spin spin relaxation …

The principle cause of frost heave is the formation of segregated ice—ice lenses—in
freezing soil columns. Despite much experimental and theoretical work, there remain many …

Freezing point and unfrozen water content are key parameters in modeling the heat and
mass transfer under the cyclic change of atmosphere temperature. It is theoretically revealed …