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Engineering and Technology

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56
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Overview

Eng Choon Leong is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and primarily conducts research in the field of Engineering, with a specific focus on Civil and Structural Engineering.

Their research covers several subfields including:

  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Geophysics

Eng Choon Leong's work addresses a variety of topics within geotechnical engineering and related areas, notably:

  • Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
  • Numerical methods in engineering

The scientist has contributed to multiple publications over several years. Recent examples include:

  • Post Covid-19 water and waste water management to protect public health and geoenvironment (2020), Environmental Geotechnics
  • Assessment of critical rainfall scenarios for slope stability analyses based on historical rainfall records in Singapore (2022), Environmental Earth Sciences
  • Environmental geotechnics: challenges and opportunities in the post-Covid-19 world (2020), Environmental Geotechnics
  • A modified series-parallel electrical resistivity model of saturated sand/clay mixture (2021), Engineering Geology
  • Effect of mean grain size on shear modulus degradation and damping ratio curves of sands (2022), Géotechnique

Frequent publication venues where the scientist's work appears include:

  • International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering
  • Environmental Geotechnics
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Geotechnical Testing Journal
  • E3S Web of Conferences

Collaborative research with various frequent coauthors is notable in their publication record. These coauthors include:

  • Hossam Abuel-Naga
  • Wenjie Ma
  • Changdan Wang
  • Binglong Wang
  • Shunhua Zhou

Best Publications

  • Review of soil-water characteristic curve equations

    E. C. Leong;H. Rahardjo

  • PERMEABILITY FUNCTIONS FOR UNSATURATED SOILS

    Eng Choon Leong;Harianto Rahardjo

  • Factors Controlling Instability of Homogeneous Soil Slopes under Rainfall

    Harianto Rahardjo;Harianto Rahardjo;T. H. Ong;T. H. Ong;R. B. Rezaur;R. B. Rezaur;Eng Choon Leong;Eng Choon Leong

  • CONTROLLING PARAMETERS FOR RAINFALL-INDUCED LANDSLIDES

    Illias Tsaparas;Harianto Rahardjo;David G. Toll;Eng Choon Leong

  • Infiltration effects on stability of a residual soil slope

    J. M. Gasmo;Harianto Rahardjo;Eng Choon Leong

  • Response of a residual soil slope to rainfall

    H Rahardjo;T T Lee;E C Leong;R B Rezaur

  • The effect of antecedent rainfall on slope stability

    H. Rahardjo;X. W. Li;D. G. Toll;E. C. Leong

  • Factors affecting the filter paper method for total and matric suction measurements

    Eng Choon Leong;Liangcai He;Harianto Rahardjo

  • Factors affecting drying and wetting soil-water characteristic curves of sandy soils

    Hong Yang;Harianto Rahardjo;Eng Choon Leong;Delwyn G. Fredlund

  • Effect of Antecedent Rainfall Patterns on Rainfall-Induced Slope Failure

    Arezoo Rahimi;Harianto Rahardjo;Eng Choon Leong

  • Total suction measurement of unsaturated soils with a device using the chilled-mirror dew-point technique

    Eng Choon Leong;Sudhiranjan Tripathy;Harianto Rahardjo

  • Characteristics of residual soils in Singapore as formed by weathering

    Harianto Rahardjo;K. K. Aung;Eng Choon Leong;R. B. Rezaur

  • Measuring Shear Wave Velocity Using Bender Elements

    Eng Choon Leong;Sir Hoon Yeo;Harianto Rahardjo

  • One-dimensional analysis of soil plugs in pipe piles

    M. F. Randolph;E. C. Leong;G. T. Houlsby

  • Effect of hydraulic properties of soil on rainfall-induced slope failure

    Arezoo Rahimi;Harianto Rahardjo;Eng Choon Leong

  • Indirect Measurement of Suction

    Rifat Bulut;Eng Choon Leong

  • Effects of Groundwater Table Position and Soil Properties on Stability of Slope during Rainfall

    Harianto Rahardjo;Alfrendo Satyanaga Nio;Eng Choon Leong;Ng Yew Song

  • Variability of residual soil properties

    Harianto Rahardjo;Alfrendo Satyanaga;Eng Choon Leong;Yew Song Ng

  • Mechanics of Residual Soils

    G. E. Blight;E. C. Leong

  • Water characteristic curve of soil with bimodal grain-size distribution

    Alfrendo Satyanaga;Harianto Rahardjo;Eng Choon Leong;Jing-Yuan Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Harianto Rahardjo
Harianto Rahardjo Nanyang Technological University
Delwyn G. Fredlund
Delwyn G. Fredlund University of Saskatchewan
Mark Randolph
Mark Randolph University of Western Australia
Kay Soon Low
Kay Soon Low National University of Singapore
Sukant K. Tripathy
Sukant K. Tripathy University of Massachusetts Lowell
Abdelmalek Bouazza
Abdelmalek Bouazza Monash University
Ahmed Elgamal
Ahmed Elgamal University of California, San Diego
Adrian Wing-Keung Law
Adrian Wing-Keung Law National University of Singapore
Guy T. Houlsby
Guy T. Houlsby University of Oxford
Yiik Diew Wong
Yiik Diew Wong Nanyang Technological University

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