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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Paul Hughes, Dr Simon Rees, Dr Ross StirlingORCiD, Dr Jessica HolmesORCiD, Professor Stephanie Glendinning, Dr Colin DavieORCiD
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of a conference proceedings (inc. abstract) that has been published in its final definitive form by Australian Geomechanics Society, 2022.
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CACTUS (Climate Adaptation Control Technologies for Urban Spaces) is an ongoing research project that is investigating the development of “climate adaptation composite barrier systems” capable of limiting the impact of a changing environment on buried geo-infrastructure, such as retaining walls and foundations. The project partners are investigating: (i) a range of potential soil types (with amendments) that will meet the desired requirements of climate adaptation engineered barriers (permeability and water holding capacity); (ii) the independent and combined impacts of wet-dry and freeze-thaw cycles on the volume change and strength characteristics of the potential barrier materials; (iii) appropriate species of vegetation that can promote removal of water from the water holding layer; (iv) experimental modelling of stress-deformation characteristics (lateral and axial) of the soil systems when subject to wetting and drying; (v) numerical modelling of the composite barrier systems to develop protocols for implementing the novel systems; (vi) trial implementation of the proposed technologies at field scale.
Author(s): Toll DG, Kerr H, Hughes PN, Johnson KL, Osman AS, Tripathy S, Wang H, Rees SW, Bengough AG, Boldrin D, Knappett JA, Thangarajah J, Pandey P, Sivakumar V, McKinnon P, Tsiampousi A, Petalas A, Zdravkovic L, Potts DM, Stirling RS, Holmes J, Glendinning S, Davie CT, Leung AK
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: 20th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Year of Conference: 2022
Online publication date: 01/05/2022
Acceptance date: 29/10/2020
Date deposited: 06/04/2022
Publisher: Australian Geomechanics Society
URL: https://icsmge2022.org/
