A Fractional Creep Constitutive Model for Frozen Soil in Consideration of the Strengthening and Weakening Effects by Feng Hou, Quanming Li, Enlong Liu, Cheng Zhou, Mengke Liao, Huiwu Luo, Xingyan Liu

“…The triaxial creep tests of frozen silty clay mixed with sands were performed under different pressures, and the test results demonstrated that, under the low confining pressure, when the shear stress is lower than the long-term strength, the test specimen exhibits an attenuation creep because the strengthening effect is greater than the weakening effect. …”
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DNA PANEL DESIGN FOR GENOMIC STUDIES IN RUSSIAN CATTLE BREEDS by N. S. Yudin, L. A. Vasil’eva, V. A. Belyavskaya, R. B. Aitnazarov, P. N. Smirnov, M. Heaton, W. W. Laegreid, G. V. Orlova, A. G. Romashchenko, M. I. Voevoda

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Evaluation of the Accumulation Conditions and Favorable Areas of Shale Gas in the Upper Palaeozoic Marine-Continental Transitional Facies in the Daning-Jixian Area, Ordos Basin by Xu Zeng, Wei Wang, Qian Cao, Shangwen Zhou, Guodong Dong, Aiming Wang, Zhixin Chen, Hua Mei

“…Residual primary pores formed by shale compaction, secondary pores formed by organic matter hydrocarbon generation, clay mineral transformation and dissolution, and fractures provide suitable reservoir spaces for shale gas. …”
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Géographie et hydrologie de la ville de Reims/Durocortorum et de ses environs by Alain Devos, Claire Pichard, Gilles Fronteau, Sébastien Laratte

“…These valleys provide the plateaus with significantly diversified environments, between the crops on the loess layers, forests generally along the clay covered interfluves, wetland meadows at the foot of the valleys, as well as multiple slopes with suitable exposure for vine cultivation. …”
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Model Test on the Behaviors of Deep Excavation with Lateral Confined Water by Mingyuan Wang, Minyun Hu, Chaohua Li, Xiaobing Xu, Zefeng Ye, Qi Hu

“…Due to the rapid transmission of lateral confined water pressure changes in fine sand, and the delayed transmission in clay due to their low permeability, the diaphragm wall response is most pronounced within the depth range of the lateral confined aquifer.…”
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Evaluation of Physicochemical Properties of Sandy-Textured Soils under Smallholder Agricultural Land Use Practices in Sarawak, East Malaysia by Soo Ying Ho, Mohd Effendi Bin Wasli, Mugunthan Perumal

“…Because of the siliceous sandy nature (low clay contents) of Spodosols, they are poor in nutrient retention capacity. …”
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Application of Gene Expression Programming to Evaluate Strength Characteristics of Hydrated-Lime-Activated Rice Husk Ash-Treated Expansive Soil by Kennedy C. Onyelowe, Fazal E. Jalal, Michael E. Onyia, Ifeanyichukwu C. Onuoha, George U. Alaneme

“…The input parameters were HARHA, liquid limit (wL), (plastic limit wP, plasticity index IP, optimum moisture content (wOMC), clay activity (AC), and (maximum dry density (δmax) while CBR, UCS, and R value were the output parameters. …”
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Effect of internal erosion on the hydraulic behavior of gap-graded coarse-fine mixtures: Experimental and mathematical investigations by Marziyeh Salajegheh, Mahmoud Yazdani, Vahid Pachideh

“…For this reason, in this research a triaxial-erosion apparatus was developed to perform an experimental and mathematical investigation of erosion of sand-fines mixtures. Three different clay-sized particle types (rock powder, kaolinite or bentonite) each with three fines contents 20 %, 25 % and 30 % were used. …”
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The Influence of Soil Parameters on the Impulse and Airblast Overpressure Loading above Surface-Laid and Shallow-Buried Explosives by John Q. Ehrgott Jr., Stephen A. Akers, Jon E. Windham, Denis D. Rickman, Kent T. Danielson

“…The experiments were conducted using three different well characterized soils; 10.8% air-filled-voids (AFV) silty sand, 5.4% AFV clay, and 29.8% AFV poorly graded sand. The combined aboveground loads due to airblast and soil debris were measured by an impulse measurement device. …”
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Earth Pressure of Three-Dimensional Stress States under Different Strength Criteria and Its Application by Yu Zhang, Jin Liu, Te-Jia Fan, Chen-Yang Xu, Tian-Yi Meng, Yang Zhao, An Su

“…The formulas are derived on the basis of the Mohr–Coulomb, spatially mobilized plane (SMP), σ3 SMP, Lade–Duncan, axisymmetric compression- (AC-) SMP strength, and generalized Mises (Gen-Mises) criteria and then extended to clay. We also compare the calculated Earth pressure with the measured data. …”
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Investigating the effect of various lengths of bamboo straw on the mechanical properties of adobe by Balfaqih Ahmed, Baarimah Abdullah O., Yafouz Ayman, Yahaya Fadzil Mat, Najah Ali

“…The mixture utilized in this experimental research contains sand, clay, silt, and bamboo straw. Adobe bricks with bamboo straw were prepared along with a control mix. …”
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Structural Alteration, Hydration Stability, Heavy Metal Removal Efficiency, and Montmorillonite Porosity Fate by Coupling the Soil Solution pH and a Thermal Gradient by Chadha Mejri, Walid Oueslati, Abdesslem Ben Haj Amara

“…Clay minerals are considered as a promising material in the context of geological barrier for the confinement of radioactive and industrial waste. …”
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Muck Improvement Technology for Connection Passage of Shield Tunneling Metro Tunnels in Coastal Areas by JIANG Peng, ZHANG Chong, LI Gang, DONG Zibo, DENG Yuebao, ZHU Yaohong

“…［Method］ Based on a silty clay shield tunneling project of the connection passage on Ningbo Metro Line 5, the optimal mass fraction and the best injection ratio of the foaming agent are determined through the muck improvement test. …”
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Mechanical properties and mechanisms of soda residue and fly ash stabilized soil by Tianfeng Yang, Bo Huang, Chunan Zhan, Cheng Jiang, Liping Zhang, Xiaoqing Zhao, Mingrui Zhao

“…Abstract To improve the utilization rates of soda residue (SR) and fly ash (FA), reduce environmental pollution, and enhance the mechanical properties of marine clay (MC), this study proposes mixing SR, FA, and MC with cement and /or lime to prepare soda residue-fly ash stabilized soil (SRFSS). …”
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Analyzing the Origin of Low Resistivity in Gas-Bearing Tight Sandstone Reservoir by Yanjiao Jiang, Jian Zhou, Xiaofei Fu, Likai Cui, Chao Fang, Jiangman Cui

“…The results indicated that when there is no or a low degree of mud invasion, the fine lithology, complex pore structure, additional clay mineral conductivity, and high content of pyrite are the main internal factors driving the conditions present in the studied gas reservoir. …”
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Lime and gypsum reduce N-fertilizer requirements and improve soil physics, fertility and crop yields in a double-cropped system by Maria Gabriela de Oliveira Andrade, Carlos Felipe dos Santos Cordeiro, Amanda Ferraresi Roberto, Juliano Carlos Calonego, Ciro Antonio Rosolem

“…The study was carried out in southeastern Brazil, in a tropical climate environment, in a sandy clay textured Oxisol. In total there were 12 treatments, that investigated the effects of surface application of lime, phosphogypsum, and N fertilization on soil chemical and physical attributes and soybean and maize nutrition and yield in two seasons (2020–2022). …”
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In-Depth Global Analysis of Transcript Abundance Levels in Porcine Alveolar Macrophages Following Infection with Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus by Laura C. Miller, John D. Neill, Gregory P. Harhay, Kelly M. Lager, William W. Laegreid, Marcus E. Kehrli

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Intercalation of Methylene Blue in a High-Charge Calcium Montmorillonite — An Indication of Surface Charge Determination by Zhaohui Li, Chih-Jen Wang, Wei-Teh Jiang

“…As such, the CEC determination of swelling clays using the MB adsorption method is justified. …”
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Characteristics and Driving Mechanism of Soil Organic Carbon Content in Farmland of Beijing Plain: Implication for the Fate of Engineered Polymers in Soil by Lanlan Zhang, Zhen Li, Shiwen Zhang, Shasha Xia, Hongguang Zou, Yuanfang Huang

“…SOC content increases as organic fertilizer input rises, and an extra unit (15 kg·ha−1) of organic fertilizer input leads to an increase of 0.057 g·kg−1 in SOC content. The soil with higher clay content exhibits higher SOC content. The organic carbon content in different soil texture types increases with time, and there is a significant difference between the increases in medium loam and light loam. …”
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CPTU-Based Offshore Wind Monopile Rigid Bearing Mechanism Analysis by Jie Zhou, Renjie Gu, Panpan Shen, Chengjun Liu, Zeyao Li, Kefan Zhu, Zhenming Shi

“…Large-diameter steel monopile foundations of offshore wind turbines have been widely adopted in China with lots of marine clay located. However, the conventional offshore wind monopile bearing capacity prediction from the American Petroleum Institute (API) based on the small-diameter flexible pile field test is inaccurate with the rigid mechanism of large-diameter monopile causing economically loss. …”
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