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Hailing Kong1,2,3, Luzhen Wang1, Hualei Zhang3

  • 1College of Civil Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng, Jiangsu 224051, People's Republic of China.

Royal Society Open Science
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grain size distributioninitial compressionmechanical–hydrological–chemical coupling effectrock granular materialseepage process

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