Deep foundation pits, pipe gallery troughs, culverts, and other infrastructure often require backfilling operations. Soil-based controlled low-strength material (soil-based CLSM), with its advantages of self-compaction, self-leveling, and self-hardening, has garnered significant attention in recent years and shows potential as a replacement for traditional rolling compaction backfill materials. Based on the backfill project of the pipe gallery at the Xihong Bridge in Ningbo, this study investigates the unconfined compressive strength, permeability coefficient, compression characteristics, and flow behavior of soil-based CLSM with varying curing agent ratios, assessing its engineering feasibility through field testing. The results demonstrate that soil-based CLSM, particularly with polycarboxylate superplasticizer agent, exhibits substantially improved strength, permeability, construction workability, and other service performance. Additionally, a detailed simulation of the entire pipe gallery foundation pit construction process-including pipe gallery construction, trench backfilling, support removal, and road construction-was performed using the Hardening soil with small strain stiffness model of the soil. The deformation characteristics were analyzed under different backfill conditions to assess the suitability of soil-based CLSM for trench backfilling. The analysis also considered soil deformation under varying curing ages and upper load conditions. The optimized backfilling solution for soil-based CLSM was obtained and validated with field test data. The findings suggest that using soil-based CLSM for foundation trench backfilling can effectively mitigate settlement issues.

To accurately simulate the three-dimensional stress state and service performance of subgrade under long-term traffic loads, a subgrade service performance test system was developed. The test system consists of the loading system, a fully digital servo control system, and a data acquisition system. Based on the time-history characteristics of total stress components (three normal stresses and three shear stresses) of subgrade soil elements under traffic loads, the loading system was designed with four dynamic actuators and three static actuators. The loading system can simulate the rotation of principal stress axis in any subgrade soil elements through coordinated dynamic and static loading. The calculation method of load system was established to achieve the threedimensional stress state of subgrade soil element under traffic loads. Furthermore, the model tests were conducted on the developed test system to verify the three-dimensional stress state of subgrade under the typical traffic loads, such as highways, railways and airports. Results shows that the actual output load deviation of each dynamic and static servo actuator is under 1%. The time-history curves of dynamic stress components and the attenuation of vertical dynamic stress are in good fit with the theoretical calculations. Besides, the vertical dynamic stress in the subgrade decreases progressively with depth, and the stress path of the soil element is approximately heart-shaped. The above validated results indicate that the test system accurately simulates the three-dimensional stress state of subgrade under different traffic loads. Therefore, the subgrade service performance test system developed in this study offers a new concept, method, and technology for investigating the evolution of subgrade service performance under long-term traffic loads.