Applied Mechanics and Civil Engineering VI

Preface, Behavior of large deformation and supporting measures in soft rock tunnel, Integrating in situ tests on the excavation damaged zone of underground caverns, Screening of Lactobacillus rhamnosus capable of yielding high levels of Conjugated Linoleic Acid by UV mutagenesis, A method for intelligent safety monitoring and hazard warning of highway dangerous rock, Studies on the mechanism of ecological restoration of eutrophic water in a tropical shallow urban lake, Development of a modal identification method using the random decrement technique combined with HHT, Study on the creep characteristics and constitutive model of schist in natural and saturated states, Effect of Nano-CaCO3 on performance of cement and concrete, Study of rock loosening deformation and security characteristics of columnar jointed basalt based on monitoring information fusion, Low-energy environmental improvement for glass curtain wall buildings, Study on the mechanical properties of a damaged steel beam, Structural behavior analysis of the steel frame of a damaged beam end, Application of stable isotopes in the study of lake and reservoir leakage, Root cause analysis of the collapse accident at the Tsinghua university high school construction site using “24 model”, Research on the development law of pore pressure during shearing of the saturated dense silty soil by the rake tooth, Study on the punching shear strength and deformation capacity of RC slabs based on a database, Experimental study on impact localization based on wavelet analysis, Analysis of shield tool wear problems in a variable compound stratum, Anchor cable encircled modes of unbonded annular anchors for pre-stressed tunnel lining, Simulation of oil transport after oil spill in the Bohai Sea, The construction technology of Earth Pressure Balance shield in sand stratum section, Effect of chemical–mechanical activation on the cementitious activity of iron ore tailings, The design value of vertical earth pressure on hydraulic tunnels, Numerical simulation of sediment erosion and transport in the diversion tunnels of a hydropower station, Lattice Boltzmann modeling of two-phase flows in complex porous media considering surface hydrophobicity, Optimization of primary support parameters for the main structure of the tunnel of Beijing, Processes of storm-induced fluid mud formation in open muddy channels, Analysis of runoff variation trend of the Dongting Lake in China, Numerical simulation of the lock release gravity current in a linearly stratified environment, Simplified method to calculate buoyancy in multi-layered strata, Effect of dissolved oxygen on nitrate removal from drinking groundwater using rice wine, Low-frequency variability of sea surface height in the tropical Pacific Ocean, Study on the effect of water content on the stability of gypsum pillars, Study on the effect of water content on the stability of gypsum pillars, Author index

Postgraduate and Professional

Liquan Xie is an associate professor in the College of Civil Engineering at the Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He has more than 20 years of teaching, research, and industrial experience related to hydraulic engineering and geotechnical engineering. He has published more than 60 research papers and spent about 10 years teaching many courses for undergraduate and graduate students. Previously, he worked on the construction of Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, the third longest in the world. He also built up technical experience on the construction of large river-crossing bridges and highways.