Deformations and seepage-induced erosion of fractured rocks in fault under confined settings by Wenbin SUN, Dianjin TIAN, Cheng MA, Yanchao XUE, Can YANG, Kaipeng ZHU

“…For samples with the same particle size distribution, those in the water-saturated state exhibited higher incremental strain than those in the dry state. …”
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Study of interfacial bonding properties and shrinkage deformation of cement-alkali activated gradient-structured composite in complex environments with temperature-humidity changes by Xinzhe Li, Ganyou Jiang, Naishuang Wang, Yisong Wei, Zheng Chen, Zheng Chen, Jing Li, Jing Li, Ben Chen, Ben Chen, Jiamin Yu, Jiamin Yu

“…The early splitting strengths under the two extreme environmental effects increased and then decreased, and the maximum splitting strengths of OPCAAS were 2.66 MPa and 3.65 MPa under the temperature difference cycling and dry-wet cycling, respectively, which were 5.14% and 35.69% higher than those of OPC-AAMK, respectively. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) characterization analysis showed that the temperature difference cycling resulted in more severe product decomposition of the AAMK cementitious material, and obvious cracks and holes appeared at the bonding interface of OPC-AAMK. …”
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Calculation Method of Overburden Damage Height Based on Fracture Mechanics Analysis of Soft and Hard Rock Layers by Liang Chen, Shaowu Fan, Can Zhao, Lang Zhang, Zhiheng Cheng

“…The calculation accuracy of the proposed method was higher than that of the three conventional theoretical methods, and it effectively solved the limitation of the fracture analysis method without the inclusion of the soft rock layer in design and the distortion problem due to the residual bulking coefficient to be improperly used in simulation. (2) There was no noticeable fractures in the broken soft rock zone, and the whole fractures were mainly low-angle rupture; the fractures in hard rock layer had obvious ruptures and multiangle cracks, and the average fracture width of soft rock was 2.8 mm smaller than that of hard rock. …”
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Fruit Quality and Production Parameters of Some Bitter Cherry Cultivars by Ionel Perju, Iulia Mineață, Sorina Sîrbu, Iuliana Elena Golache, Ionuț Vasile Ungureanu, Carmen Doina Jităreanu

“…Thus, the resistance to frost in the full flowering phenophase had an average value of 86.69%, and regarding the resistance to fruit cracking, the highest percentage was found in C₁, with 99.79% unaffected fruits. …”
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Seawater-originated fluids interactions with oceanic lithospheric mantle peridotites and formation of hornblendite dykes, as well as spadaite and dolomite veins in the Naein ophiol... by Fatemeh Naderi, Ghodrat Torabi, Nargess Shirdashtzadeh

“…In the hornblendites, the higher content of MgO contrasted to CaO reveals a considerable activity of Mg in circulation of hydrothermal fluids (Torabi et al., 2017). …”
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Macroscopic Mechanical Properties and Microscopic Bonding Mechanisms of Glass Fiber-Modified Loess by Le Li, Wanjun Ye, Yang Bai, Yuntao Wu

“…Qualitative analysis of the SEM images show that with the increase in the glass fiber incorporation ratio, the fiber increasingly sutures the cracks in the soil and tightens the soil at both ends of the cracks. …”
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Seismic Response of a Bridge Pile Foundation during a Shaking Table Test by Yunxiu Dong, Zhongju Feng, Jingbin He, Huiyun Chen, Guan Jiang, Honghua Yin

“…The bedrock surface had a relatively small influence on the amplification of the seismic wave, whereas the overburden had a marked influence on the amplification of the seismic wave and filtering effect. Damage to the pile foundation was observed at 0.50 g seismic intensity. …”
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