1. PhD candidate, PG student, Key Laboratory of Soft Soils and Geoenvironmental Engineering, MOE, Department of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China
2. Senior Engineer, Ningbo Rail Transit Group Company Limited, Ningbo, P. R. China
3. Reader, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
4. Professor, Key Laboratory of Soft Soils and Geoenvironmental Engineering, MOE, Department of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China (corresponding author: )