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Experimental and Numerical Investigation on the Tensile Fracture of Compacted Clay

Chengbao Hu^{1, 2, 3}, Liang Wang⁴, Daosheng Ling^{1, 2, 3, *}, Wujun Cai⁵, Zhijie Huang^{1, 2}, Shilin Gong^{1, 2, 3}

1 MOE Key Laboratory of Soft Soils and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
2 Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
3 School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, 315100, China.
4 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, 33123, USA.
5 Zhongnan Engineering Co., Ltd., Changsha, 410014, China.

* Corresponding Author: Daosheng Ling. Email: .