T. Tsuruta’s scientific contributions

... Mechanical tests such as direct shear tests, tensile strength tests, In-situ jack-hammer shear tests, and tri-axial compression tests are used to evaluate the mechanical behaviour of the root-soil matrix in terms of an increase in shear strength. Endo and Tsuruta [37] investigated the reinforcing effect of tree roots on soil shear strength through large-scale, in situ direct shear tests on soil samples containing vegetation roots [37]. Numerous such studies have been reported to quantify the contribution of root reinforcement on the shear strength of the root-soil matrix [5,14,18,21,22,28,30,32,[38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47]. ...

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Stabilization of Mine Waste Dumps Through Bio-Engineering