OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geotechnical Testing Journal is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Centrifuge Modeling of the Impact of Local and Global Scour Erosion on the Monotonic Lateral Response of a Monopile in Sand	27
Tensile Strength of Compacted Clays during Desiccation under Elevated Temperatures	20
Evaluation of Dynamic Image Analysis for Characterizing Granular Soils	18
Salinity Assessment for Salted Soil Considering Both Dissolved and Precipitated Salts	18
Laboratory Tests on Mitigation of Soil Liquefaction Using Microbial Induced Desaturation and Precipitation	14
The Hydraulic Properties of Aquabeads Considering Forchheimer Flow and Local Heterogeneity	11
Scour Mitigation and Erodibility Improvement Using Microbially Induced Carbonate Precipitation	11
Reappraisal of Fall-Cone Flow Curve for Soil Plasticity Determinations	11
Fiber Bragg Grating–Based Flume Test to Study the Initiation of Landslide-Debris Flows Induced by Concentrated Runoff	11
Evaluating at Three Scales the Hydraulic Conductivity in an Unconfined and Stratified Alluvial Aquifer	11
Developing a Sample Preparation Approach to Study the Mechanical Behavior of Unsaturated Fine/Coarse Soil Mixture	10
Quantifying Polymer Loading in Bentonite-Polymer Composites Using Loss on Ignition and Total Carbon Analyses	10
Vacuum Preloading Combined with Intermittent Electro-Osmosis for Dredged Slurry Strengthening	9
A Unified Approach for Establishing Soil Water Retention and Volume Change Behavior of Soft Soils	9
Impacts of Fixed-End and Flexible Boundary Conditions on Seismic Response of Shallow Foundations on Saturated Sand in 1-g Shaking Table Tests	9
Experimental Techniques for the Study of the Cracking Mechanisms in Drying Clays	9
An Experimental Study on the Rheological Properties of Laponite RD as a Transparent Soil	9
Tensile Strength of Cemented Paste Backfill	9
A New Method to Simultaneously Measure the Soil–Water Characteristic Curve and Hydraulic Conductivity Function Using Filter Paper	8
Influence of Shear Rate on the Shear Strength of Discontinuities with Different Joint Roughness Coefficients	8
Resilient Modulus of Expansive Soils at High Suction Using Vapor Pressure Control	8
Twenty-Year Creep Test with Tuff under Uniaxial Compression	8
Determining Soil Plasticity Utilizing Manafi Method and Apparatus	7
Vertical Load Transfer Behavior of Composite Foundation and Its Responses to Adjacent Excavation: Centrifuge Model Test	7
Performance of the Tensiometer Method for the Determination of Soil-Water Retention Curves in Various Soils	7

A Device for the Simultaneous Determination of the Water Retention Properties and the Hydraulic Conductivity Function of an Unsaturated Coarse Material; Application to a Green-Roof Volcanic Substrate	7
Modified Thermomechanical Triaxial Cell for Microscopic Assessment of Clay Fabric Using Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction	7
Assessment of Several Interpreted Pile Capacity Criteria for Large-Diameter Open-Ended Piles	7
Suction Bucket Foundations under Cyclic Tensile Loading—Physical and Numerical Modeling	7
Development and Application of a New Triaxial Testing System for Subzero Rocks	7
New Osmotic Tensiometer Development	7
Four-Dimensional Dynamic Synchrotron Microcomputed Tomography Imaging of Gas-Water Interface at High Pressure and Low Temperature	7
Quantification of Surface Roughness Using Laser Scanning with Application to the Frictional Resistance of Sand-Timber Pile Interfaces	7
Deep, In Situ Nonlinear Dynamic Testing of Soil with Controlled Blasting: Instrumentation, Calibration, and Application to a Plastic Silt Deposit	6
A Comparison of Half and Quarter Space Penetration into Granular Media	6
Roller-Integrated Compaction Assessment of Earth-Rock Dam Materials Considering Operation Modes	6
Selecting an Appropriate Shear Plate Configuration to Measure Elastic Wave Velocities	6
Suggested Method of Specimen Preparation for Triaxial Tests on Partially Saturated Sand	6
Shake Table Testing: A High-Resolution Vertical Accelerometer Array for Tracking Shear Wave Velocity	6
Physical Modeling of Coupled Thermohydraulic Behavior of Compacted MX80 Bentonite during Heating	6
A Large-Scale High-Pressure Erosion Apparatus for Studying Internal Erosion in Gravelly Soils under Horizontal Seepage Flow	6
A New Direct Tension Test Method for Soils and Soft Rocks	6
Piezoelectric Ring-Actuator Technique: In-Depth Scrutiny of Interpretation Method	6
Measurement of Suction Stress and Soil Deformation at High Suction Range	5
Drained Residual Shear Strength Power Function Coefficients a and b	5
Rheological Deformation Behavior of Soft Rocks under Combination of Compressive Pressure and Water-Softening Effects	5
New Approach to Concurrent VS and VP Measurements Using Bender Elements	5
Comparison of Hydrometer Analysis and Laser Diffraction Method for Measuring Particle and Floc Size Distribution Applied to Fine Coal Refuse	5
A New Suction-Controlled True Triaxial Apparatus for Unsaturated Soil Testing	5
Examples of Variable-Head Field Permeability Tests Used in Books: Given Interpretations and Correct Interpretations	5
Specific Surface Area of Plastic Clays from Equilibrium Sediment Volume under Salt Environment	5
The Physical Reasons to Have Underdamped or Oscillating Variable-Head (Slug) Tests: A Review and a Clarification	5
Multidirectional Flow Apparatus for Assessing Soil Internal Erosion Susceptibility	5
An Improved Apparatus for Testing the Friction Variation of Soil-Structure Interface Induced by One-Dimensional Vibration	5
Drained Shear Displacement Rates in Fully Softened Strength Torsional Ring Shear Testing	4
Internal Erosion of a 0–5 mm Crushed Sand in a Rigid Wall-Permeameter: Experimental Methods and Results	4
Mesostructural Mechanism of Hydraulic Gradient Fluctuations Affecting Internal Instability Using Transparent Soil	4
On the Failure Mechanism of Brittle Granite in 2-D Rock Indentation	4
A Novel Apparatus for Dynamic-Static Coupling Tests on Gas-Adsorbed Coal	4
Performance Characterization of Unsaturated Granular Soils Using Static and Dynamic Plate Load Test	4
A Rapid Method of Determination of Swell Potential and Swell Pressure of Expansive Soils Using Constant Rate of Strain Apparatus	4
A Large-Scale True Triaxial Seepage Apparatus for Evaluating Impact under High Stress State and High Hydraulic Heads	4
Optimizing the Arrangement of Strain Gauges in Pile Load Testing	4
A Fourier Spectral Method to Measure the Thermal Diffusivity of Soil	4
Experimental Study of Modeling Partially Drained Dense Sand Behavior in Monotonic Triaxial Compression Loading Tests	4
On Cohesive Soil Damping Estimation by Free Vibration Method in Resonant Column Test	4
Centrifuge Modeling Methodology for Energy Pile Pullout from Saturated Soft Clay	4
Barometric Fluctuations and Duration of Variable-Head (Slug) Field Permeability Tests	4
Numerical Simulation Analysis of Real-Time High-Temperature Impact Test Technique of Rock Materials	4
A Hollow Cylinder Torsional Shear Device to Explore Behavior of Soils Subjected to Complex Rotation of Principal Stresses	4
A Large-Scale True Triaxial Apparatus with Rigid-Flexible-Flexible Boundary for Granular Materials	4
Effects of Confining Pressure on Mechanical Properties and Damage Evolution of Granite under Cyclic Impact Loading	4
Effects of Oven Temperature and Addition of Ethanol on Measurement of Water Content and Specific Gravity of Cement-Stabilized Soft Clay	4
Design and Development of Tilt Table-Based In-Flight Simulator for Pseudostatic Loading in a Geotechnical Centrifuge	3
How to Correctly Interpret Strange Data for Field Permeability (Slug) Tests in Monitoring Wells or between Packers	3

A Ring-Shear Radial-Seepage Apparatus for Evaluating the Permeability of Shear Bands in Compacted Clay	3
Measurement Performance Evaluation of Tactile Pressure Sensor with Different Particle Sizes and Sensor Curvatures	3
Laboratory Investigation into the Effect of Particle Sizes on Shear Wave Parameters Using Bender Elements Test Results	3
Experimental Studies and Sustainability Assessments of Quarry Dust for Chemical Treatment of Expansive Soils	3
Specific Surface Area by Colorimetry and Image Analysis	3
The Sed360 Test for Rapid Sand Particle Size Distribution Determination	3
An Apparatus to Measure Gas Diffusion and Gas Permeability of Unsaturated Cap Barriers Subjected to Distortion	3
A Vapor Testing Device for Evaluating the Effect of Steam on Compacted Bentonite	3
Experimental Study on Progressive Damage Evolution in Rocks Subjected to Post-peak Cyclic Loading History	3
Predictive Model for Soil Shrinkage Characteristic Curve of High Plastic Soils	3
Laboratory Model Test of Fully Buried Portal Frame-Shaped Slope-Stabilizing Piles	3
Variability in Particle Size Distribution Due to Sampling	3
Cemented Paste Backfill Hydraulic Conductivity Evolution from 30 Minutes to 1 Week	3
A New Testing Method for the Characterization of the Tension-Compression Cyclic Behavior of Rock Salt	3
Design and Development of an In-Flight Actuator for Modeling Dynamic Compaction in a Geotechnical Centrifuge	3
Compression and Shear Strength Characteristics of Unsaturated Intact Loess in True Triaxial Tests	3
Development and Evaluation of Preconditioning Protocols for Sand Specimens in Constant-Volume Cyclic Direct Simple Shear Tests	3
Discussion of ‘Determining Soil Plasticity Utilizing Manafi Method and Apparatus’ by Masoud S. G. Manafi, An Deng, Abbas Taheri, Mark B. Jaksa, and Nagaraj HB, published in Geotechnical Testing Journa	3
Field Rebound and Recompression Curve of Soft Clay	3
Monitoring Flexure Behavior of Compacted Clay Beam Using High-Resolution Distributed Fiber Optic Strain Sensors	3
Mechanical Consequence Observation and Microscopic Visualization of Internal Erosion Using Developed Plane Strain Erosion Apparatus	3
Test Apparatus for Rapid Determination of Soil-Water Retention Curve under Isotropic Loading Condition	3
Simple Testing Method for Measuring the Triaxial Stress-Strain Relations of Unsaturated Soils at High Suctions	3
Visualization of Localized Deformations of Sand in Drained Triaxial Compression Using Digital Image Correlation	3
Examining the Contact Filter Paper Method in the Low Suction Range	3
Investigation to Quantify Suction Characteristics of Marine Soil during Drying and Wetting Cycles	3
Comparisons between Geotextile Pore Sizes Obtained from Capillary Flow And Dry Sieving Tests	3
Evaluation of a Simple and Affordable Image-Based Procedure to Measure Particle Size Distribution	3
Estimation of Damage Evolution within an In Situ Rock Mass Using the Acoustic Emissions Technique under Incremental Cyclic Loading	3
Integrated Interpretation of Electrical Conductivity Changes, Heat Generation, and Strength Development in the First Week in Cemented Paste Backfill	3
A Modified Triaxial Apparatus for Soils under High-Frequency, Low-Amplitude Vibrations	3