Environmental regulations have a certain impact on regional green technology innovation affected by regional differences. Using the panel data of 30 provincial-level administrative regions in China (excluding Tibet, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) from 2011 to 2019, we consider China’s new environmental protection law (NEPL) as a quasi-natural experiment to evaluate the impact of environmental regulation on green technology innovation in a difference-in-differences (DID) framework and further analyze the influences of regional differences. The results indicate that environmental regulations can promote regional green technology innovation, and that regional differences have a significant impact on this issue. Furthermore, environmental regulations in regions with high and low levels of economic development and education, and regions with medium and low levels of energy consumption have a significant impact on green technology innovation. The government should reasonably formulate environmental regulation policies on the basis of regional differences, encourage cross-regional exchanges and cooperation, and more efficiently stimulate regional green technology innovation to achieve sustainable development.

In order to explore the evolution law of stress and strain in the process of hydraulic fracturing, a hollow inclusions stress-strain gauge was used for monitoring. The results show that the influence range of high-pressure water spreads to the monitoring borehole at 47m after 2 hours of hydraulic fracturing, and its influence on the stress-strain monitoring point reaches the maximum, and the strain tends to be stable in the later stage. After 6 days of hydraulic fracturing, the strain returns to a stable state without any change, but it is still larger than the state before hydraulic fracturing. During hydraulic fracturing, the increment of principal stress increases, but the amplitude is different. Hydraulic fracturing mainly affects the increment of vertical stress, which is related to the stress-strain monitoring point and the space location of the hydraulic fracturing borehole. After hydraulic fracturing, the stress increment decreases gradually and tends to return to the original stable state due to the gradual pressure relief of fracturing fluid, but it is still larger than the state without hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing has little effect on the azimuth and dip angle of coal and rock mass. The stress-strain law can provide reference for the exploration of the coal seam permeability increasing mechanism of hydraulic fracturing.

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For better harmlessly treatment of papermaking sludge, a new technology for solidifying and stabling of sludge was studied. Papermaking sludge was solidified and stabilized by the solidifying agents including cement, powder fly ash (PFA) and cinder. The mechanical properties of solidified sludge block were evaluated by compressive strength, chemical oxygen demand (COD) and heavy metals concentration in the leachate from the solidified block were tested as well. When the solidifying agents has the following composition (cement 0.12kg/kg, PFA 0.02kg/kg and cinder 0.10kg/kg respectively), and the curing time was 6ds, the compressive strength of the solidified sludge blocks reached 360kPa. The results showed that cement and cinder were all positive in the compressed strength of sludge block. If they were mixed with PFA together, they could enhanced the solidification of organic and heavy metals in the sludge. Under this conditions, the COD in leachate from the solidified block was 115.7 mg/L, and the heavy metal concentration had reached the related national standards, after 6ds of curing time, water ratio of the solidified block kept from 35% to 40%, which met the prescribed standards of landfill.

For asphalt pavement structures, semi-rigid road base course has to sustain repeated high-axle load during its service life and the performance of semi-rigid road base materials directly influences the durability of pavement structures. The dynamic compressive resilience modulus of two commonly used semi-rigid road base materials, cement stabilized aggregates (CSG) and lime-fly ash stabilized aggregates (LFSG) were evaluated at different frequencies using a Universal Testing Machine (UTM). The results showed that LFSG had higher dynamic modulus than that of CSG and the load frequency had less influence on the dynamic modulus of these two semi-rigid road base materials. The four-point bending test was applied to measure the flexural-bending strength and the fatigue life of these two semi-rigid materials. A higher flexural-bending strength of LFSG indicated its better bearing capacity than that of CSG. The fatigue life of LFSG and CSG decreased with the increase of stress–strength ratio and the LFSG performed better in terms of fatigue resistance. The fatigue damage models of CSG and LFSG based on Stress-Life (S-N) curve are established. As per incremental-recursive mechanics, a general modulus degradation model was established and verified by the results of full-scale accelerate loading test. This model cannot only be used to predict the fatigue deterioration of semi-rigid road base materials under different stress levels, but is also able to calculate the current bending elastic modulus based on its initial modulus value.