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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Auxiliary plastic potential approach in elastoplasticity for soils	30
Impact of chemical weathering on microstructures and mechanical properties of karstic limestone	15
Award-winning paper in 2022	15
Filter paper method for suction measurement using electrical resistivity	12
A modified state parameter for identifying flow liquefaction in aeolian sand	11
Intrinsic permeabilities of transparent soil under various aqueous environmental conditions	11
Undrained trapdoor and tunnel face stability revisited	11
A new method for storage of block samples: a pilot study	11
Shear creep behaviour of soil–structure interfaces under thermal cyclic loading	10
Adaptivity of plate anchors to restrain the impact of seabed trenching	10
Laboratory assessment of rubber grid-reinforced ballast under impact testing	10
A mixed formulation of limit analysis for seismic slope stability	9
Rate-dependency of residual shear strength of soils: implications for landslide evolution	9
si-PiNet: a novel stress integration method for elastoplastic models	8
Sulfoaluminate cement-based double-liquid material grouting in fractured rock	8
Structure evaluation of a tropical residual soil under wide range of compaction conditions	8
Experimental investigation of the effect of train load on mechanical properties of rock	8
Effect of eccentricity on ultimate lateral unit earth pressure of tetrapod piles in clay	8
Relating physical properties to temperature-induced damage in carbonate rocks	7
Application of the unified CPT method for driven piles to layered deposits	7
Effects of ultrasonic oscillations on permeability of rocks during the paraffinic oil flow	7
Rigorous lower and upper bounds for the generalised failure loads of pile groups	7
Optimising an output of a slip line field using a chaotic swamp optimisation algorithm	6
Failure mechanism of joint-separated granite reinforced by three-dimensional printed bolt	6
X-ray microstructural insight into the mechanical behaviour of ligth-weight cemented soils	6

Novel procedure for measuring the saturation of the pore-pressure system in piezocone tips	6
Effects of urease-producing bacteria on permeability and strength control for sands	5
A two-scale study on the influence of biopolymer enhancement on drying granular materials	5
Investigation on the attractive forces controlling clay particles' interactions	5
Assessing temperature dependence of soil water adsorption strength by molecular simulation	5
Géotechnique Letters: Referees 2022	5
Theoretical model for the effect of porosity on correlations of point load tests of rocks	5
An energy-based damage model for red-bed sandstones subjected to drying–wetting cycles	5
Effect of initial normal stress on shear-induced non-linear fluid flow through fractures	4
Coupled effects of stress state and void ratio on thermal conductivity of saturated soils	4
Particle shape descriptors as a tool for classification of grain breakage	4
Three-dimensional dynamic behaviour of embankments on liquefiable ground	4
Seismic stability charts for three-dimensional rock slopes using Hoek–Brown criterion	4
Numerical analysis of the deep soil failure mechanism for perimeter pile groups	4
Numerical assessment of effects of strain rate on the critical state of crushable sand	4
Simplified DEM approach for complex reef limestone structures and pore characteristics	4
Using discrete-element method hindcasting of screw pile performance for practical design	4
A study of the multi-scale compression behaviour of a sand immersed in a viscous liquid	3
Small-strain stiffness and dynamic properties of well-graded gravel–rubber mixtures	3
Development and application of indoor digital drilling test systems	3
Géotechnique Letters: Referees 2021	3
A new grouting cable without a core tube used for reinforcement of fractured rock mass	3
Static response of vertically loaded pile in inhomogeneous soil	3
The pyrite heave problem: new insights from trace-element analysis	3
Further modification of a generalised 3D Hoek–Brown criterion: the GZZ criterion	3
Effects of particle morphology on pore structure and SWRC of granular soils	3
Cyclic failure of interfaces between sand and snakeskin-inspired surfaces	3
A simple discrete approach to explore the response of swelling and softening particles	3
Relating cone penetration resistance to sand state using the material point method	3
Evaluation of microstructural strength of bio-cemented sand crust using rheometry	2
Effect of saturation confining pressure on accessible density and shear behaviour of sandy silt tailings	2
Optimised screw pile design for offshore jacket foundations in medium–dense sand	2
An innovative method to simulate stress-induced velocity changes in anisotropic rocks	2
Fish anchor diving behaviour: confirmation through field tests in the Swan River	2
Snakeskin-inspired patterns for frictional anisotropic behaviour of split set rock bolts	2
Strength and stiffness anisotropy of 3D-printed coarse root analogues for small-scale physical modelling	2
Dynamic properties of Toyoura sand in reliquefaction tests	2
Sand improvement by microbial-induced carbonate precipitation with casein micelles	2
A simple procedure for freezing triaxial test specimens and determining the final moisture content after liquefaction	2
Sustainable pervious concrete pile for liquefaction and reliquefaction mitigation	2
Permeability of polymer-modified kaolinite and fly ash–kaolinite mixtures	2
Coriolis effect mitigation for single particle motion in centrifugal hypergravity field	2
Variation of the mass susceptibility of sandstone after high-temperature heating	2
Liquefaction triggering of non-saturated sandy soils	2
Finite-element analysis of ultimate lateral pressure of snowflake pile in undrained clay	1
Cyclically thermally-activated pile under combined axial/horizontal loads in clay	1
Distributed acoustic sensing in soil for infrastructure monitoring	1
Modulus weighting method for stiffness estimations of suction caissons in layered soils	1
Coupling of hydraulic loading and surcharge pressure during suffusion in sandy gravels	1
Pipe piles and split-cables: reinforcing weak mine pits	1

Energy pile skin friction at interface in clays under temperature cycles	1
Effects of initial water content on compression behaviour of municipal sewage sludge	1
Mechanical behaviour of rock samples containing multiple parallel joints during shearing	1
Autogenous sealing of a cavity in bentonite clay: an x-ray computerised tomography study	1
Experiments and modelling of horizontal loading tests on small-scale foundations in sand	1
Role of the particle size and shape dispersion on stress transmission and strain energy storage	1
Award-winning paper in 2020	1
Site response analysis of liquefiable soil employing continuous wavelet transforms	1
Assessing the undrained strength cross-anisotropy of three tailings types	1
Pore-space characterisation of Tamusu mudstone based on FIB-SEM	1
A new method for producing uniform, loose, initially unsaturated specimens	1
Elemental mapping by micro X-ray fluorescence to assess binder distribution of improved soils	1
Numerical study on the damage evolution of UHPC lining in LRC gas storage	1
A simple method to reduce mesh dependency in modelling landslides involving brittle soils	1
Three-dimensional limit analysis with Lade–Duncan criterion	1
Critical state shear strength at concrete–sand–bentonite slurry interfaces: mix proportions and rate effects	1