期刊论文

Zang, M

英文

Applied Sciences-Basel

2076-3417

2023

13

13

7464-

10.3390/app13137464

M.Z.: conceptualization, methodology, writing—review and editing, and investigation. J.T.: methodology and investigation. H.L.: review and funding acquisition. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11802215) and the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province of China (Grant No. 2022CFA011), and the authors are grateful for this financial support.

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Expansive clay is one of the most widely distributed soils in the world. Due to its rich content of strongly hydrophilic minerals—such as montmorillonite—expansive clay exhibits substantial swelling and shrinkage properties, and overconsolidation. The formation process of undisturbed expansive clay has a long and complicated geological history and innumerable drying–wetting cycles, resulting in the formation of special internal structures. In this study, the mud-to-natural-consolidation deposition process was simulated using a saturated mud-...