Engineering the strength and consolidation of reclaimed soft soil

复垦软土的强度与固结工程。本项目旨在通过控制干燥来加固复垦软土。软土是澳大利亚和世界各地许多工业部门面临的重大工程挑战。疏浚软土的处理成本高、时间长，软尾矿的破坏是一场环境灾难，会造成生命损失和矿山生产中断。该项目将研究材料行为的潜在过程，通过开发新的电磁测量和建模方法来预测干燥过程中微观和宏观尺度上的材料强度。新方法有望为软土的承载力和沉降问题提供创新的解决方案。

Engineering the strength and consolidation of reclaimed soft soil. This project aims to strengthen reclaimed soft soils by controlled desiccation. Soft soil is a significant engineering challenge for many industry sectors in Australia and worldwide. The disposal of dredged soft soil is costly and time-consuming, and failure of soft mine tailings is an environmental catastrophe that can cause loss of life and interrupt mining production. This project will research the underlying processes of material behaviour, by developing new electromagnetic measurement and modelling methods to predict material strengths at the micro and macro scales during desiccation. The new approach is expected to lead to innovative solutions to bearing capacity and settlement problems associated with soft soils.