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Engineering and Technology

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Citations
10508
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3025
National Ranking
612

Earth Science

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Overview

Yunmin Chen is affiliated with Zhejiang University in China and has a significant body of work concentrated in the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's research topics primarily focus on areas within Geotechnical Engineering and environmental impacts related to soils and groundwater. Major topics of study include:

  • Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization
  • Landfill Environmental Impact Studies
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis

Yunmin Chen frequently publishes in journals that cater to geotechnical and environmental engineering disciplines. Their prominent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Computers and Geotechnics
  • Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
  • Canadian Geotechnical Journal
  • Géotechnique

Recent notable papers by Yunmin Chen cover a range of scientific issues:

  • Soil heavy metal pollution of industrial legacies in China and health risk assessment, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Negative mixing enthalpy solid solutions deliver high strength and ductility, 2024, Nature
  • Relieving metabolic burden to improve robustness and bioproduction by industrial microorganisms, 2024, Biotechnology Advances
  • Liquefaction case studies of gravelly soils during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, 2020, Engineering Geology
  • Human health risk assessment for contaminated sites: A retrospective review, 2022, Environment International

The scientist often collaborates with several frequent co-authors, reflecting a network of collaborative research partnerships. These include:

  • Liangtong Zhan
  • Wenjie Xu
  • Xuecheng Bian
  • Yan-Guo Zhou
  • Duanyang Zhuang

Best Publications

  • Face stability analysis of shallow shield tunnels in dry sandy ground using the discrete element method

    R.P. Chen;L.J. Tang;D.S. Ling;Y.M. Chen

  • Full-scale model testing on a ballastless high-speed railway under simulated train moving loads

    Xuecheng Bian;Hongguang Jiang;Chong Cheng;Yunmin Chen

  • Shear strength characterization of municipal solid waste at the Suzhou landfill, China

    Tony L.T. Zhan;Y.M. Chen;W.A. Ling

  • Performance of a large-scale slope model subjected to rising and lowering water levels

    G.W. Jia;Tony L.T. Zhan;Y.M. Chen;D.G. Fredlund;D.G. Fredlund

  • Comment on JHM 142 (2007) 1-53 'Arsenic removal from water-wastewater using adsorbents--a critical review' by D Mohan and CU Pittman Jr.

    Zhenze Li;Shigeyoshi Imaizumi;Takeshi Katsumi;Xiaowu Tang

  • An improved 3D wedge-prism model for the face stability analysis of the shield tunnel in cohesionless soils

    R. P. Chen;L. J. Tang;X. S. Yin;Y. M. Chen

  • Field Tests on Pile-Supported Embankments over Soft Ground

    R. P. Chen;Z. Z. Xu;Y. M. Chen;D. S. Ling

  • Adsorption behavior and mechanism of Cd(II) on loess soil from China.

    Yan Wang;Xiaowu Tang;Yunmin Chen;Liangtong Zhan

  • Track and ground vibrations generated by high-speed train running on ballastless railway with excitation of vertical track irregularities

    Xuecheng Bian;Hongguang Jiang;Chao Chang;Jing Hu

  • A theoretical solution for pile-supported embankments on soft soils under one-dimensional compression

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  • Aging and compressibility of municipal solid wastes.

    Y.M. Chen;Tony L.T. Zhan;H.Y. Wei;H. Ke

  • Laboratory Investigation on Assessing Liquefaction Resistance of Sandy Soils by Shear Wave Velocity

    Yan-Guo Zhou;Yun-Min Chen

  • Centrifugal model tests on face failure of earth pressure balance shield induced by steady state seepage in saturated sandy silt ground

    Renpeng Chen;Renpeng Chen;Xinsheng Yin;Lvjun Tang;Yunmin Chen

  • Influence of seismic cyclic loading history on small strain shear modulus of saturated sands

    Yan-guo Zhou;Yun-min Chen

  • Failure Investigation at a Collapsed Deep Excavation in Very Sensitive Organic Soft Clay

    R. P. Chen;Z. C. Li;Y. M. Chen;C. Y. Ou

  • An analytical solution for rainfall infiltration into an unsaturated infinite slope and its application to slope stability analysis

    Tony L. T. Zhan;G. W. Jia;Y.-M. Chen;D. G. Fredlund

  • An analytical solution for one-dimensional contaminant diffusion through multi-layered system and its applications

    Yunmin Chen;Haijian Xie;Han Ke;Renpeng Chen

  • Vertical migration of leachate pollutants in clayey soils beneath an uncontrolled landfill at Huainan, China: a field and theoretical investigation.

    T.L.T. Zhan;C. Guan;H.J. Xie;Y.M. Chen

  • One-dimensional nonlinear consolidation of multi-layered soil by differential quadrature method

    R.P. Chen;W.H. Zhou;H.Z. Wang;Y.M. Chen

  • Secondary Compression of Municipal Solid Wastes and a Compression Model for Predicting Settlement of Municipal Solid Waste Landfills

    Yunmin Chen;Han Ke;Delwyn G. Fredlund;Liangtong Zhan

  • Adsorption behavior of Zn(II) on calcinated Chinese loess

    Xiaowu Tang;Zhenze Li;Yunmin Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Renpeng Chen
Renpeng Chen Zhejiang University
Abdelmalek Bouazza
Abdelmalek Bouazza Monash University
Charles Wang Wai Ng
Charles Wang Wai Ng Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Tao Wu
Tao Wu University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Pinjing He
Pinjing He Tongji University
Xiong Yu
Xiong Yu Case Western Reserve University
Shi-Jin Feng
Shi-Jin Feng Tongji University
Delwyn G. Fredlund
Delwyn G. Fredlund University of Saskatchewan
Fan Lü
Fan Lü Tongji University
Olaf Kolditz
Olaf Kolditz TU Dresden

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