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Microstructures of the Soil Layer at Different Depths in the Centrifuge Modeling of Land Subsidence Caused by the Interaction of Two High-Rise Buildings

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Microlevel is one of the two points of view to investigate soil behavior of consolidation, and the MIP has been routinely used to quantitatively examine the wide range of pore sizes.

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Cui, ZD. (2018). Microstructures of the Soil Layer at Different Depths in the Centrifuge Modeling of Land Subsidence Caused by the Interaction of Two High-Rise Buildings. In: Land Subsidence Induced by the Engineering-Environmental Effect. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8040-1_7

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