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Experimental Study on the Viscosity of Soft Cohesive Sediments Around A Vibrating Pillar
Offshore structures are subject to environmental loads such as waves, currents, or wind, which may induce cyclic lateral vibration at the...
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Small-scale measurement of the transition in fracture behavior of marine sediments
Bubbles grow and burrows extend through cohesive, muddy marine sediments by fracture. In contrast, sands are non-cohesive, granular materials....
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Application of Ultrasound Image Velocimetry (UIV) to cohesive sediment (fluid mud) flows
Ultrasound image velocimetry (UIV) is a technique that enables non-intrusive whole-flow field velocimetry measurements in opaque fluids. It gained...
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Temporal and Spatial Local Scour Profile of Cylindrical Pier in Cohesive Sediment Mixture
Local scour estimation in bridge piers is one of the main elements to design new bridges and to monitor existing bridges. It is important to obtain...
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Estimating Critical Shear Velocity of Incipient Cohesive Sediment Motion of Shallow Slope Under Surface Runoff
Surface runoff is an important factor inducing soil erosion of shallow slope. Due to the complexity of material composition, grain arrangement and...
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Optimisation of the depth range of UIV on cohesive sediment (fluid mud) flows
Ultrasound Image Velocimetry (UIV) is a technique that enables the monitoring of flows in natural high-density cohesive sediments, also known as...
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Correlation Between Yield Stress of Silty Mud Sediments and Continuous Oscillatory Shearing Properties
Analyzing the rheological properties of silty beds subjected to continuous oscillatory shear loading is crucial for understanding the morphological...
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Microstructural Characterization of Alluvial Sand Containing Cohesive Soil Lumps During Loading and Inundating
Cohesive soil, as soil lumps within the sand matrix of the Gangetic alluvial plain, exerts a significant influence on the dynamic properties of sand...
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Prediction of Local Scour around Bridge Piers in the Cohesive Bed Using Support Vector Machines
Local scour around bridge piers is one of the most important factors threatening the life of bridges. The three-dimensional highly complicated...
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Numerical simulation of hydraulic fracture characteristics in gas hydrate bearing-sediments by using CDEM
Currently, gas hydrate exploitation suffers from problems such as low efficiency of production due to the low permeability of the reservoir and...
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Mechanical characteristics of overconsolidated hydrate-bearing clayey–silty sediments with various confining pressures
The mechanical characteristics of hydrate-bearing sediments (HBS) are not only dominated by the cementing and filling effects of hydrate, which makes...
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Effect of Berm Properties on Non-Cohesive Earth Dam Failure due to Overtop**
Berms are typically built on the upstream and downstream slopes of earth dams to provide slope stability against seepage. The influence of berm...
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Elastoplastic constitutive model for gas hydrate bearing sediments considering hydrate occurrence habits
The occurrence habits and content of hydrates significantly impact the mechanical behavior of sediments. Therefore, the established constitutive...
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Strength estimation and stress–dilatancy characteristics of natural gas hydrate-bearing sediments under high effective confining pressure
Gas production by depressurization can significantly increase the effective stress in hydrate-bearing sediments. Therefore, strength and deformation...
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Long-term dynamic bearing capacity of shallow foundations on a contractive cohesive soil
The calculation of the long-term dynamic bearing capacity arises from the need to consider the generation of maximum pore-water pressure developed...
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Experimental Study on Endurance Performance of Lime and Cement-Treated Cohesive Soil
An earthwork design requires to consider the influence of severe climatic conditions on enduring performance of soils treated with chemical...
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Impacts of Composition on Sediment Suspensions Over Sand-Silt Mixtures Under Currents
Coastal sediments are generally mixtures of grains of different sizes, i.e. sediment compositions. Different sediment compositions would result in...
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Experimental study of flows over Block Ramps on stability of non-cohesive beds
Block ramps are ecofriendly drop structures, which ensure more stability in the downstream riverbed. The scouring in the stilling basin bed material...
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Local Scour Near Sluice Gate in Clay–Sand Mixtures
Local scour near the hydraulic structures is a practical problem of engineering design. The foundation can be damaged due to excessive scour, which...
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Assessment of Different Coastal Defence Structures to Promote Wave Energy Dissipation and Sediments Retention
Coastal areas are an apprized environment by society that will continue to expand rapidly. Traditional coastal protection structures are commonly...