Natural soils are usually heterogeneous and characterized with complex microstructures.
Sand–clay mixtures are often used as simplified soils to investigate the mechanical …

In order to clarify the micro‐mechanics of clay during compression, the behavior of clay
subjected to one‐dimensional compression is investigated at the particle scale using …

This paper characterizes the microstructural evolution of saturated natural loess from a site
in Jingyang, China, during triaxial test along two stress paths. For comparison, the same soil …

Experimental evidences have shown deficiencies of the existing overstress and creep
models for viscous behaviour of natural soft clay. The purpose of this paper is to develop a …

Microorganisms have played a critical role in geological processes and in the formation of
soils throughout the geological times. It is hypothesized that biological activity can also affect …

In this study on the surface charges and structural characterization of kaolinite clay, it is
found that the highly pH dependent edge charges are important to the interparticle forces …

A database with about 60 undrained monotonic and cyclic triaxial tests on kaolin is
presented. In the monotonic tests, the influences of consolidation pressure …

The observed decline in microbial abundance with increasing depth has been associated to
various environmental factors. Meanwhile, the role of geometrical constraints and soil …

This paper provides a manual for the thorough calibration of material parameters of the
anisotropic visco ISA (AVISA) model and discusses some of the pitfalls that can arise when …

This paper outlines a framework for using molecular dynamics to simulate the compression
of kaolinite saturated at alkaline pH (= 8) in a low (1 mM) concentration solution. The …