Anisotropy in volume change behaviour of soils during shrinkage

PN Mishra, Y Zhang, MH Bhuyan, A Scheuermann - Acta Geotechnica, 2020 - Springer
It has been long recognised that some of the fundamental and engineering properties of
soils exhibit a certain degree of anisotropy that eventually dictates their directional …

The Prediction of Transmission Towers' Foundation Ground Subsidence in the Salt Lake Area Based on Multi-Temporal Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar and …

B Jin, T Zeng, T Yang, L Gui, K Yin, B Guo, B Zhao… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Displacement prediction of transmission towers is essential for the early warning of
transmission network deformation. However, there is still a lack of prediction on the ground …

[HTML][HTML] Salinity effects on soil shrinkage characteristic curves of fine-grained geomaterials

PN Mishra, A Scheuermann, T Bore, L Li - Journal of Rock Mechanics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fine-grained clayey soils are prone to substantial volume changes during desiccation in
response to the dynamics of their moisture regime, and are of critical importance in several …

Coupled hydraulic, mechanical and dielectric investigations on kaolin

T Bore, PN Mishra, N Wagner, M Schwing, T Honorio… - Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
A new integrated experimental and theoretical framework to simultaneously measure
mechanical, hydraulic and high frequency dielectric properties of soil during shrinkage was …

Evaluation of hydraulic conductivity functions of saturated soft soils

PN Mishra, A Scheuermann, L Li - International Journal of …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
Hydraulic conductivities of soils rely significantly on three factors, the properties of their pore
water, the relative quantity of their pore water, and changes in their pore structure. For …

Kaolin clay reinforced with a granular column containing crushed waste glass or traditional construction sands

D Kazmi, M Serati, DJ Williams, SQ Olaya… - International Journal …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
Installation of granular columns is a cost-effective and versatile in situ technique to improve
the shear strength, settlement, and drainage behavior of weak soils. It involves backfilling …

A unified approach for establishing soil water retention and volume change behavior of soft soils

PN Mishra, A Scheuermann… - Geotechnical …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The assumption of treating the specimen volume as constant while experimentally
determining the soil water retention curve (SWRC) of soils is valid only for nonplastic …

[HTML][HTML] Characterisation of pore fluid salinity dependent evaporative dewatering of kaolin using dielectric spectroscopy

PN Mishra, T Bore, A Scheuermann, L Li - Journal of Rock Mechanics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Realising the importance of pore fluid salinity on the dewatering behaviour of fine-grained
porous systems, the present study systematically investigated such impacts on temporal …

Suppressive effects of geotextiles on soil water evaporation

Y Zhang, PN Mishra, S Tiwari, A Scheuermann, L Li - Acta Geotechnica, 2024 - Springer
Geotextiles find wide applications in the field for filtration and drainage. When applied on the
soil surface they influence soil evaporation. The objective of this work is twofold:(a) to assess …

An improved evaporation quantification method: Accounting for soil deformability and side evaporation effect

Y Zhang, PN Mishra, A Scheuermann - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Several methods quantify soil evaporation by measuring vertical moisture flux or by
recording change in mass of a soil specimen. These methods conventionally consider a non …