Xiumei Zhong¹, Yuxin Liang^1,2,*, Qian Wang^1,*, Jinlian Ma¹, Shouyun Liang², Yan Wang¹, Xiaowei Xu¹

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.10, No.12, pp. 3405-3424, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2022.021120

Abstract The road subgrade and road surface in collapsible loess area are prone to many engineering diseases such as uneven subgrade settlement, insufficient bearing capacity of soaked foundation, collapse and instability of subgrade side slope due to the special properties of loess. As an environment-friendly, low-cost soil modifier with good adhesion and chelation properties, lignin has been considered to be used in highway subgrade construction. In order to explore the effect of lignin on loess, the compressive and collapsible properties of modified loess with different lignin contents were analyzed based on consolidation compression test. The improvement mechanism of lignin on loess… More >

Xiaolei Man^1,*, Ganggang Sha², Shuigen Hu¹, Hui Bao¹, Guangying Liu¹

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.14, No.4, pp. 339-353, 2020, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2020.013001

Abstract Geotubes are heterogeneous structures composed of filling sand and bag material, and its permeability characteristics are different from that of filling sand. The uncertainty of geotubes permeability characteristics results in the failure of seepage analysis of geotube dams, which restricts the safety assessment of the dams. As the basis of the study on the seepage mechanism of the geotubes, the influence of particle grading on permeability coefficient of filling sand and sand covered with geotextiles were explored by the permeability tests of filling sand with different particle grading under the condition of sand covered with or without geotextiles. And the… More >