Microbial‑induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) technology: a review on the fundamentals and engineering applications

K Zhang, CS Tang, NJ Jiang, XH Pan, B Liu… - Environmental Earth …, 2023 - Springer
The microbial‑induced carbonate precipitation (MICP), as an emerging biomineralization
technology mediated by specific bacteria, has been a popular research focus for scientists …

Review of strength improvements of biocemented soils

Y Xiao, X He, M Zaman, G Ma, C Zhao - International Journal of …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
Microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) has attracted great attention
recently for its ability to improve the mechanical properties of soils. Calcium carbonate …

An experimental study of mitigating coastal sand dune erosion by microbial-and enzymatic-induced carbonate precipitation

KW Liu, NJ Jiang, JD Qin, YJ Wang, CS Tang, XL Han - Acta Geotechnica, 2021 - Springer
Due to more extreme weather events and accelerating sea-level rise, coastal sand dunes
are subjected to more frequent storm wave inundation and surge impacts, which contribute …

Crystal growth of MICP through microfluidic chip tests

Y Xiao, X He, AW Stuedlein, J Chu… - … of Geotechnical and …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
A significant pressing issue in microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) is
the characterization of the heterogeneous growth mechanics of calcium carbonate (CaCO 3) …

Homogeneity and mechanical behaviors of sands improved by a temperature-controlled one-phase MICP method

Y Xiao, Y Wang, S Wang, TM Evans, AW Stuedlein… - Acta Geotechnica, 2021 - Springer
Microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) has been actively investigated as a
promising method to improve soil properties. A burning issue impeding its wide application …

Liquefaction modeling for biocemented calcareous sand

Y Xiao, Z Zhang, AW Stuedlein… - Journal of Geotechnical …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
A thermodynamics-based constitutive model is developed for calcareous sand treated by
microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) to describe the effects of biocementation and …

[HTML][HTML] Mitigation of soil liquefaction using microbial technology: an overview

K Wang, S Wu, J Chu - Biogeotechnics, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil liquefaction is a major geo-hazard. As liquefaction could occur anywhere in a sand
layer and result in large-scale lateral spreading, treatment for liquefaction needs to be …

Kinetic biomineralization through microfluidic chip tests

Y Xiao, X He, W Wu, AW Stuedlein, TM Evans, J Chu… - Acta Geotechnica, 2021 - Springer
A homogeneous microfluidic chip was used to investigate the pore-scale characteristics
during the process of microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP). An image …

State of the art review of emerging and biogeotechnical methods for liquefaction mitigation in sands

M Sharma, N Satyam, KR Reddy - Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Earthquake-induced liquefaction causes soil to exhibit fluidlike behavior due to a sudden
increase in pore water pressure and a concurrent decrease in effective stress. The …

MIDP: Liquefaction mitigation via microbial denitrification as a two-stage process. II: MICP

ST O'Donnell, E Kavazanjian Jr… - Journal of Geotechnical …, 2017 - ascelibrary.org
This paper focuses on the potential for microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP)
via dissimilatory reduction of nitrogen, or denitrification, to mitigate the potential for …