Shear strength is an essential geotechnical parameter for assessing the landslide potential
of loess slopes under rainfall infiltration and farm irrigation conditions on the loess plateau …

Slope stability analysis is a classical mechanical problem in geotechnical engineering and
engineering geology. It is of great significance to study the stability evolution of expansive …

Due to the fixed negative charges in the skeleton of expansive soil, there are exchangeable
cations between the layers that balance the negative charges in expansive soil. That makes …

Understanding the thermo-mechanical behavior of deep-water sediments is essential for the
safe design of high-temperature oil/gas pipelines. In this study, a series of temperature …

Pore fluid chemistry can obviously influence the deformation and strength of expansive soil.
To investigate the change rules and the underlying mechanisms, free swelling rate and …

Pore water chemistry can exert significant controls over the chemo-mechanical behavior of
chemically active soils, which has not been characterized by using the traditional Terzaghi's …

In this paper, the effect of salt (Na 2 SO 4, NaCl) on the clay Atterberg limits and shear
strength is revealed by using volumetric flask test and triaxial shear test, and the …

The presence of water and salt transport in complex hydrochemical environments allows for
continuous changes in the suction state of clay (matric suction, osmotic suction, and their …

Many engineering practices are carried out within the unsaturated soil. Soil-water retention
curves (SWRCs) of many soils exhibit bimodal characteristics that significantly affect strength …

The interaction mechanism between matric suction and osmotic suction was clarified
through the analysis of certain physicochemical effects on unsaturated saline clay. The …