...X. Zhang; A. Zhang; L. Meng; Y. Wu; D. Li; M. Hu The coral sand has been widely used in island reef engineering. This study investigates the effects of cement content and curing age on the mechanical properties of cement-reinforced coral sand ( CRCS ) through uniaxial compression tests, and low...

... laboratory setup, featuring bender element tests, was utilised to analyse the relationship between P-wave velocity and degree of saturation. The tests were conducted on Toyoura sand and TP-Lisbon sand. Analyses in both time and frequency domains confirmed consistent wave behaviour. The results demonstrated...

... pressure gravity flow sands Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province LR23E090001 National Natural Science Foundation of China 52571309 52588202 Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities 2024FZZX03-03-02 The authors acknowledge the financial support from...

... (mondal.s@unimelb.edu.au) 21 03 2025 12 01 2026 © 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only fabric fabric/structure of soils laboratory tests micro-CT imaging microstructure sands shear simple shear Australian...

... reported. Contrasts are associated with changes to the soil particle morphology after treatment to induce hydrophobicity, from particle size and shape to surface roughness. Here, constant-head tests on hydrophobised sands with known physicochemical properties and particle attributes were conducted...

... physical modelling studies have shown that model anchors dragged in dry sand may penetrate to much greater depths in loose sand than current CBRA approaches predict. As other seabed penetrating objects (e.g. pipeline ploughs) have shown velocity or rate of pull dependent behaviour in saturated soils...

...-use rights only clays plate anchor probabilistic analysis pullout capacity sands spatial variability UN SDG 7: affordable and clean energy UN SDG 13: climate action Plate anchors have been increasingly preferred over traditional pile foundations for floating offshore structures...

... and in extraterrestrial environment, are briefly highlighted. 08 10 2024 17 06 2025 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only direct simple shear laboratory tests low effective stresses paraelasticity repeated loading sands seismic...

...M. Rafai; A. M. Tang; T. Badinier; J. D. Sauvage; P. J. Vardon; D. Salciarini The intrinsic behaviour of dense sand under cyclic thermal loading at multiple stress levels, especially in the context of geostructures, is limited. This study uses a temperature-controlled triaxial cell to investigate...

... strain as the mean effective stress approaches zero. The performance of the modified model is demonstrated by simulating the post-liquefaction volumetric strain of sand and comparing the results with experimental data at an element scale. constitutive relations liquefaction sands settlement...

...D. Reid; R. Fanni; A. Fourie Moist tamping (MT) forms the most common method for the reconstitution of predominately sand tailings, largely owing to its ability to produce loose specimens without segregation. However, MT has been subject to considerable criticism for not producing a fabric like...

... computational costs. Here we tackle a question stemming from this trend: how accurate should particle models be to ensure accuracy? We address this question for the case of the compression of crushable sand. LS-DEM was used to generate three models of Ottawa sand (exact replicas, ellipsoids, and spheres) from...

... profile. This paper presents an investigation on the cyclic interface element behavior of sand-structure interfaces with snakeskin-inspired surfaces with the goal of understanding the potential impact of these surfaces on the cyclic behavior of geotechnical elements. Load- and displacement-controlled...

... was performed at 1 g using a 790 × 200 mm rectangular rig, equipped with a plane strain trapdoor of width, B = 100 mm that can mimic the formation of a sinkhole, as shown in Fig. 1(a) . The tests were conducted using Hostun sand, with an average particle size, d₅₀ = 0·356...

... while immersed in a liquid was built here. With the help of a high-speed microscope camera, the crushing processes of single silica sand particles immersed in glycerine were captured and the breakage modes were clarified. The immersion in glycerine leads to stronger particles with higher strains...

... piles installed in sand deposits and in clay deposits. However, many sites encountered in practice contain both sand and clay layers as well as silt layers and it is therefore important to assess the reliability of these new methods at such sites. This paper presents this assessment using a newly...

...M. Martinelli; F. Pisanò Cone penetration tests (CPTs) can quantitatively inform about the mechanical state of a sand. However, relating measured cone resistance values to sand state requires complex back-analysis of the processes occurring in the soil during the test. This paper provides new...

...X. Xu; H. Guo; M. Li; H. Fu In microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) process, it is the precipitated calcium carbonate that cements loose sand particles together to improve their mechanical properties. Seashell nacre composed of calcium carbonate is a natural product, which...

...., 2010 ; Salami et al., 2015 , 2019 ; Das & Das, 2019). 31 03 2020 22 09 2020 20 10 2020 ICE Publishing: all rights reserved 2020 discrete-element modelling particle crushing/crushability sands Granular materials possess a unique fundamental feature...

...P. M. V. Ferreira; M. R. Coop Earlier research found that for a carbonate sand shearing to extremely large strains allowed the soil to reach a stable grading; findings also reported by others for a limited range of sands, typically sedimentary and often weak grained. This paper describes similar...