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Considerably long periods of time are required to measure soil-water characteristic curves using conventional equipment such as pressure plate apparatus or a Tempe cell. A commercially available, small-scale medical centrifuge with a... more
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Leaking underground storage tanks are a worldwide problem nowadays, therefore gasoline degradation and distribution in the subsurface have been widely studied. Brazil is the only country to currently use ethanol as fuel and as an... more
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides convincing evidence of global warming as a result of increased greenhouse gas production. There has been a greater occurrence of extreme climate events in recent decades. We... more
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Spatial variability of material properties is inherent in both natural soil deposits and earth structures, yet it is often ignored during geotechnical design. With the objective of developing novel methods for assessing the effects of... more
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Physicochemical analyses were carried out on soil samples from four different waste dumpsites in the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), Nigeria to ascertain the effects of the refuse dumpsites on soil and groundwater... more
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      Civil EngineeringUnsaturated soilSteady stateSoil Water Characteristic Curve
... Lourenco, SDN, Gallipoli, D. , Toll, DG, and Evans, F. (2006) Use of Tensiometers for the Measurement of Soil Suction. In: 10th Confresso Nacional de Geotecnia, 22 - 26 May 2006, Lisboa, Portugal. ... Authors: Lourenco, SDN,... more
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THIS IS NATURE SIGNALING THE END OF DUALITY THIS IS HUGE - CHANGE THE ENTIRETY OF CREATION - NO DUALITY ANYWHERE. IT IS VERY CLEARLY A PREDETERMINED ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS - THIS BUBBLE IS TOO WELL DESIGNED - EUPHORIA... more
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Au cours des dernières décennies, un intérêt croissant est porté à la terre crue en tant qu'éco matériau de construction pour son caractère local, sa capacité à réguler l'hygrométrie des espaces intérieurs et la faible consommation... more
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The water movements in the unsaturated zone, together with the water holding capacity of this zone, are very important for the water demand of the vegetation, as well as for the recharge of the groundwater storage. A fair description of... more
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The soils of Jinka in Southern Ethiopia were studied based on the detail works on soil pit description, characterizing and classification following the FAO and USDA guidelines. For this, along with the topo-sequence and landscape, six... more
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Composite geotextiles with polyester yarn reinforcement have been commonly used in combination with unsaturated soils. Both unsaturated and saturated shear strength of the interfaces were investigated between a composite geotextile and... more
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“Raw earth” (“terre crue” in French) is an ancient building material consisting of a mixture of moist clay and sand which is compacted to a more or less high density depending on the chosen building technique. A raw earth structure could... more
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The paper gives a brief description of double wall cell triaxial equipment for testing soil samples under unsaturated conditions and presents results of some of the calibrations necessary to achieve accurate measurements of inner cell... more
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Determinations of unsaturated soil parameters using experimental procedures are time consuming and difficult. In recent years, the soil–water characteristic curve (SWCC) has become an important tool in the interpretation of the... more
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Au cours des dernières décennies, un intérêt croissant est porté à la terre crue en tant qu'éco-matériau de construction pour son caractère local et la faible consommation d’énergie qui caractérise son cycle de vie global. Toutefois, sa... more
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The current research has investigated the soil quality status under dryland vegetation of Yabello district, Southern Ethiopia in which we should identify the nature and extent of salinity problem of the area for further research bases.... more
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      Unsaturated soilSoil DynamicsSoil ChemistryRemoval Of Heavy Metals In Contaminated Soils
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Cracks along asphaltic-concrete shoulder of highways are one of the most common infrastructure damages found in the central part of Thailand where sedimentary soils of high plasticity were widely deposited and sometimes used as subgrade... more
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Mounding often occurs beneath engineering structures designed to infiltrate reuse water. AQTESOLV software and a spreadsheet solution for Hantush, together with soil moisture water balance (SWAGMAN farm model), were used for... more
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      Environmental EngineeringCivil EngineeringUnsaturated soilWater resources
The water retention behaviour of soils is an essential aspect of understanding the unsaturated behaviour of soil materials. This paper looks at a relatively new method of measurement for soil water reten-tion curves, using high capacity... more
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Theoretical procedures are presented in this paper to interpret the undrained shear strength of unsaturated soils in terms of two stress state variables, net normal stress, (σ - ua) and matric suction, (ua - uw). The proposed theory is... more
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      Unsaturated soilShear StrengthWater ContentMatric suction
The importance of unsaturated soil mechanics stems from the fact that the majority of geotechnical engineering projects are taking place in unsaturated soil zones. Soil suction, especially matric suction, is controlling the unsaturated... more
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      Civil EngineeringUnsaturated soilGeomechanicsConstitutive model
Volume changes exhibited by expansive soils upon wetting and drying are responsible for various degrees of damage to buildings. This paper presents a simple constitutive model intended for use in finite element analyses of the interaction... more
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