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Sep 2026
A Semi-Analytical Solution for Interpretation of Hydro-Mechanical Responses of Cylindrical Cavity Expansion in Unsaturated Structural Loess
The cavity expansion solution for loess is absent because the existing elastoplastic models fail to model the sophisticated behaviors of unsaturated loess as a classic axisymmetric boundary-value problem. This paper develops a novel solution for cavity expansion in unsaturated structural loess, taking the coupled hydro...
Xiao-Chuan Liu, Zhi-Ren Xiao, Miao Zhang et al.
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