Liujiang Wang

TL;DR: In this article, a series of laboratory tests were conducted on a clayey soil to investigate the cracking behaviors under freeze-thaw cycles, and the crack patterns were described and then quantitatively analyzed on the basis of the fractal dimension concept.

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of cylindrical expansive soil specimens were compacted at three different molding water contents (15, 20% and 23%) and then subjected to a maximum of 12 closed-system F-T cycles.

TL;DR: In this paper, the causes of cracks in the face slabs of the dam were numerically analyzed from the perspective of structural and temperature-induced stresses, and the results showed that temperature-related stress is the main reason for the slab cracks on the Gongboxia concrete face rockfill dam.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of the inclusion of soil bags in accommodating soil expansion and reducing the lateral swelling pressure on adjacent retaining walls was investigated, and the results showed that the inclusion bags were more permeable and enhanced drainage, which shortened the duration of the delayed response to lateral swelling, and kept the swelling pressure steady when it reached its peak value.

TL;DR: In this paper, a micromechanically based model for the compression of crushable granular materials is developed in the framework of thermomechanics, and the internal and dissipative energies in the model are derived using the micro-macro volume averaging approach to ensure that all parameters involved have concrete physical meanings.