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Papers

(The median citation count of Geotechnique Letters is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Experiments and modelling of horizontal loading tests on small-scale foundations in sand	26
Auxiliary plastic potential approach in elastoplasticity for soils	23
Award-winning paper in 2022	23
Intrinsic permeabilities of transparent soil under various aqueous environmental conditions	20
Distributed acoustic sensing in soil for infrastructure monitoring	15
Effect of saturation confining pressure on accessible density and shear behaviour of sandy silt tailings	14
Performance of a cyclic miniature cone penetration test in dry granular soil: experimental approaches	14
Award-winning paper in 2020	12
A new method for storage of block samples: a pilot study	12
Novel evaluation of mass polar moment of inertia of the drive plate in resonant column	11
Comparing laboratory and field samples of lime–cement-improved Norwegian clay	9
Assessing temperature dependence of soil water adsorption strength by molecular simulation	9
Compressibility and shear strength of a tropical fibrous peat	9
Impact of chemical weathering on microstructures and mechanical properties of karstic limestone	8
Undrained trapdoor and tunnel face stability revisited	7
Effect of sorption on the active concentration of polymer support fluids	7
Earth pressures mobilised in dry sand with active rigid retaining wall movement	7
Analysis of the added mass term in soil bearing capacity problems	7
Dynamic properties of Toyoura sand in reliquefaction tests	7
Laboratory assessment of rubber grid-reinforced ballast under impact testing	6
Filter paper method for suction measurement using electrical resistivity	6
Optimised screw pile design for offshore jacket foundations in medium–dense sand	6
Bender-element-based penetrometers for measuring shear wave velocity and shear strength	6
Modulus weighting method for stiffness estimations of suction caissons in layered soils	6
Shear creep behaviour of soil–structure interfaces under thermal cyclic loading	6

Computation of local permeability in gap-graded granular soils	6
Influence of the Poisson effect on the stress dependence of the elastic moduli of soil	5
Strength and stiffness anisotropy of 3D-printed coarse root analogues for small-scale physical modelling	5
Effects of urease-producing bacteria on permeability and strength control for sands	5
Liquefaction triggering of non-saturated sandy soils	5
Pore-size evolution of a hydraulically deposited silty sand due to drying and rewetting	5
Variation of the mass susceptibility of sandstone after high-temperature heating	4
Coupled effects of stress state and void ratio on thermal conductivity of saturated soils	4
Performance of tripod foundations for offshore wind turbines: a numerical study	4
Discussion on Revisiting the concept of inter-granular void ratio in view of particle packing theory	4
Upper bounds for the three-dimensional seismic active earth pressure coefficients	4
Strength characteristics of brittle rocks under multi-stage intermediate principal stress loading	4
Fish anchor diving behaviour: confirmation through field tests in the Swan River	4
Adaptivity of plate anchors to restrain the impact of seabed trenching	4
Relationship between pore-size distribution and compressibility of a lateritic soil	4
Simplified effective stress simulation of shear wave propagation in saturated granular soils	4
Effect of fines content on onset of internal instability and suffusion of sand mixtures	3
DEM simulation of the compression of crushable sand: does the initial particle shape matter?	3
Sand improvement by microbial-induced carbonate precipitation with casein micelles	3
An innovative method to simulate stress-induced velocity changes in anisotropic rocks	3
Improving microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation effects by nacre extractions	3
Site response analysis of liquefiable soil employing continuous wavelet transforms	3
Rate-dependency of residual shear strength of soils: implications for landslide evolution	3
Flow dependent constriction-size distribution in gap-graded soils: a statistical inference	3
A mixed formulation of limit analysis for seismic slope stability	3
Award-winning paper in 2021	3
Energy-based criterion for slope failure considering groundwater and impact loading	3
Elemental mapping by micro X-ray fluorescence to assess binder distribution of improved soils	3
Numerical assessment of effects of strain rate on the critical state of crushable sand	2
Effect of initial normal stress on shear-induced non-linear fluid flow through fractures	2
Episodic direct simple shear tests to measure changing strength for whole-life geotechnical design	2
Three-dimensional dynamic behaviour of embankments on liquefiable ground	2
Critical state shear strength at concrete–sand–bentonite slurry interfaces: mix proportions and rate effects	2
Seismic stability charts for three-dimensional rock slopes using Hoek–Brown criterion	2
Effect of eccentricity on ultimate lateral unit earth pressure of tetrapod piles in clay	2
Effects of initial water content on compression behaviour of municipal sewage sludge	2
Grouting effects in rectangular pipe jacking: centrifuge modelling and field data	2
Interpretation of state parameter in partially drained tailings: a case history examination	2
Using discrete-element method hindcasting of screw pile performance for practical design	2
Pipe piles and split-cables: reinforcing weak mine pits	2
Splitting tensile mechanical behavior and failure characteristics of thermally-damaged rock	2
Loading transfer mechanism of a piled raft subjected to normal faulting in sand	2
Structure evaluation of a tropical residual soil under wide range of compaction conditions	2
Predictive model for water retention curve of water-absorbing polymer amended soil	2
Desiccation cracking at field scale on a vegetated infrastructure embankment	2
A crack theory-based bonded-particle model for rock particles considering size effects	2
A new method to obtain the dynamic tensile stress-strain curve of rocks	2
Relating physical properties to temperature-induced damage in carbonate rocks	1
Influence of fines content on the undrained flow instability of loess	1
Colloidal-induced permeability degradation assessment of porous media	1

The use of x-ray tomography to investigate soil deformation around growing roots	1
Géotechnique Letters: Referees 2021	1
Particle shape descriptors as a tool for classification of grain breakage	1
Earth Pressures Mobilised in Dry Sand with Active Rigid Retaining Wall Movement	1
Impacts of reference strain rate and strain level dependency on rate effects in fine-grained soils	1
Effects of ultrasonic oscillations on permeability of rocks during the paraffinic oil flow	1
Fibre optic sensing for strain-field measurement in geotechnical laboratory experiments	1
A study of the multi-scale compression behaviour of a sand immersed in a viscous liquid	1
Miner’s rule on sand and kaolin under one-dimensional conditions: experimental evidence and numerical inspection with hypoplasticity	1
Evolution of the optimum ultrasonic testing frequency of alkali-activated soil–ash	1
Energy pile skin friction at interface in clays under temperature cycles	1
Determining Bishop's parameter χ based on pore size distribution	1
Rigorous lower and upper bounds for the generalised failure loads of pile groups	1
Influence of mineral mesoscopic structure on rock dynamic fragmentation under compression	1
Numerical analysis of the deep soil failure mechanism for perimeter pile groups	1
Utilisation of Class-F fly ash in xanthan gum–amended neutral or acidic soils	1
Application of the unified CPT method for driven piles to layered deposits	1
Hysteresis of soil water retention and shrinkage characteristics for various molar concentrations	1