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Overview

De'an Sun is affiliated with Shanghai University in China and has a substantial body of research primarily focused on engineering and environmental science. Their work lies predominantly within civil and structural engineering, environmental engineering, and related subfields addressing soil mechanics and geotechnical challenges.

Their research explores a variety of topics, including soil and unsaturated flow, geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics, underground structures, groundwater flow and contamination studies, grouting and soil rheology, landslides, and soil stabilization.

  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Grouting, Rheology, and Soil Mechanics
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization

De'an Sun has published extensively in several journals. The frequent publication venues include:

  • Computers and Geotechnics
  • Acta Geotechnica
  • Annals of Nuclear Energy
  • International Journal of Geomechanics
  • Construction and Building Materials

Some of the recent papers authored by De'an Sun cover a range of topics in geomechanics and soil studies, including:

  • "Theoretical and Numerical Analyses on Hydro-Thermal-Salt-Mechanical Interaction of Unsaturated Salinized Soil Subjected to Typical Unidirectional Freezing Process" (2021, International Journal of Geomechanics)
  • "Numerical and experimental study on water-heat-salt transport patterns in shallow bare soil with varying salt contents under evaporative conditions: A comparative investigation" (2023, Journal of Hydrology)
  • "An elastoplastic solution to undrained expansion of a cylindrical cavity in SANICLAY under plane stress condition" (2021, Computers and Geotechnics)
  • "A simple method for predicting the hydraulic properties of unsaturated soils with different void ratios" (2021, Soil and Tillage Research)
  • "Kinematic limit analysis of three-dimensional unsaturated soil slopes reinforced with a row of piles" (2020, Computers and Geotechnics)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with De'an Sun include:

  • Yunzhi Tan
  • Xiangyun Zhou
  • Haohua Chen
  • Lin Li
  • Zhaotian Zeng

Overall, the research of De'an Sun spans an interdisciplinary approach, bridging engineering principles with environmental science to address complex issues related to soil behavior under various environmental and mechanical conditions.

Best Publications

  • The Cam-clay models revised by the SMP criterion

    Hajime Matsuoka;Yangping Yao;Dean Sun

  • Collapse behaviour of unsaturated compacted soil with different initial densities

    De'an Sun;Daichao Sheng;Yongfu Xu

  • A unified constitutive model for both clay and sand with hardening parameter independent on stress path

    Y.P. Yao;D.A. Sun;H. Matsuoka

  • Elastoplastic modelling of hydraulic and stress-strain behaviour of unsaturated soils

    De’an Sun;Daichao Sheng;Scott W. Sloan

  • A density‐dependent elastoplastic hydro‐mechanical model for unsaturated compacted soils

    D. A. Sun;D. C. Sheng;H. B. Cui;S. W. Sloan

  • Swelling of compacted sand–bentonite mixtures

    De’an Sun;Hongbin Cui;Wenjing Sun

  • A critical state model for sands dependent on stress and density

    Y.P. Yao;D.A. Sun;T. Luo

  • Application of Lade's Criterion to Cam-Clay Model

    Yang-Ping Yao;Yang-Ping Yao;De'An Sun;De'An Sun

  • Stress-strain behaviour of unsaturated soil in true triaxial tests

    Hajime Matsuoka;De'an Sun;Akiteru Kogane;Nobuhiko Fukuzawa

  • Collapse Behavior of Compacted Clays in Suction-Controlled Triaxial Tests

    D A Sun;H Matsuoka;Y F Xu

  • AN ELASTO-PLASTIC MODEL FOR UNSATURATED SOIL IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRESSES

    De An Sun;Hajime Matsuoka;Yang Ping Yao;Wataru Ichihara

  • Swelling characteristics of fractal-textured bentonite and its mixtures

    Y.F Xu;H Matsuoka;D.A Sun

  • Anisotropically elasto-plastic solution to undrained cylindrical cavity expansion in K0-consolidated clay

    Lin Li;Jingpei Li;De’an Sun

  • Hydromechanical behavior of unsaturated soil with different initial densities over a wide suction range

    You Gao;De’an Sun;Zancheng Zhu;Yongfu Xu

  • Elastoplastic prediction of hydro-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils under undrained conditions

    De’An Sun;Daichao Sheng;Li Xiang;Scott W. Sloan

  • EXTENSION OF SPATIALLY MOBILIZED PLANE (SMP) TO FRICTIONAL AND COHESIVE MATERIALS AND ITS APPLICATION TO CEMENTED SANDS

    Hajime Matsuoka;De'an Sun

  • Analytical solution to one-dimensional consolidation in unsaturated soils under loading varying exponentially with time

    Aifang Qin;De’an Sun;Yongwei Tan

  • Coupled modelling of hydro‐mechanical behaviour of unsaturated compacted expansive soils

    Wenjing Sun;De'an Sun

  • On the interface friction in direct shear test

    S.H. Liu;De’an Sun;Hajime Matsuoka

  • Semi-analytical solution to one-dimensional consolidation in unsaturated soils

    Ai-fang Qin;Guang-jing Chen;Yong-wei Tan;De-an Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Daichao Sheng
Daichao Sheng University of Technology Sydney
Annan Zhou
Annan Zhou RMIT University
Scott W. Sloan
Scott W. Sloan University of Newcastle Australia
Behzad Fatahi
Behzad Fatahi University of Technology Sydney
Yan-Jun Du
Yan-Jun Du Southeast University
Yu-Jun Cui
Yu-Jun Cui École des Ponts ParisTech
Ye-Shuang Xu
Ye-Shuang Xu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Tom Schanz
Tom Schanz Ruhr University Bochum

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