Purpose To understand the mechanical role of plant roots in slope stabilization, a number of
root reinforcement (RR) models, which differ greatly in form, mechanism and prediction …

Understanding the soil–root mechanical interaction is crucial to advancing the utilisation of
vegetation as a nature-based approach to designing more stable slopes and resilient urban …

Application of bio-inspired design in geotechnical engineering shows promise for improving
the energy and material efficiency of several processes in infrastructure construction and site …

Plant roots can protect soil against shallow landslides. The mechanics of rooted soil failure
under varying soil water content remain poorly understood. The aim of our study was to …

Aims In the finite element method, the mechanical behaviour of plant roots has been
modelled by solid element or embedded beam element (EBE). However, the former is …

This paper presents a comparative study of three different classes of model for estimating
the reinforcing effect of plant roots in soil, namely (i) fibre pull-out model,(ii) fibre break …

Planting vegetation is an environmentally friendly method for reducing landslides. Current
vegetated slope analysis fails to consider the influence of different root architectures, and the …

For smaller lateral plant roots in coarse-grained soils, a potentially large relative size of soil
particles compared to the roots may affect their transverse resistance. Even for the larger …

Vegetation slope protection has been widely utilized as an eco-friendly approach for slope
stability. Up to now, research on the slope protection effect of shrubs and herbaceous …

The mechanical contribution of plant roots to soil strength has typically been studied at the
ultimate limit state only. Since many geotechnical problems are related to serviceability …