Predicting landslides is becoming a crucial global challenge for sustainable development in
mountainous areas. This research compares the landslide susceptibility maps (LSMs) …

Soil degradation has become one of the serious global environmental problems, biochar is
a recyclable natural material which has been widely used in soil remediation. Soil cracking …

A rainfall-induced landslide occurred in the north highwall of the Fushun west open pit at 5:
00 (UTC+ 8) on July 26, 2016, in China. The landslide was about 3.1× 106 m3 and caused …

An anchor-reinforced vegetation system (ARVS) is a new type of flexible slope protection
system. ARVSs are composed of vegetation, anchors and high-performance turf …

The characterization and clustering of rock discontinuity sets are a crucial and challenging
task in rock mechanics and geotechnical engineering. Over the past few decades, the …

Abstract The Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN), historically known as
'Rohingya'who fled the 2017 ethnic atrocities and genocide in the Northern Rakhine State of …

The softening and collapse of soft rocks have been a persistent problem in infrastructure
construction. The mechanism by which clay minerals are softened by water can be divided …

Rock slopes with weak intercalated layers could experience disturbance from various deep
mining activities; however, their dynamic stability has not been thoroughly investigated. In …

Dispersive soil features rapid disintegration characteristic while interacting with liquid water,
which is attributed to the chief culprit for the failure of many earthen infrastructures …

Abstract Polymer Waterproof Coating (PWC) is proposed to protect expansive soil slopes.
Three groups of slope test models are developed to compare the efficiency of PWC, and the …