How to determine swell pressure of a Undisturbed Soil Sample with high moisture content ?

I have performed several swell pressure tests on UDS with moisture content about 96%. The soil is Marine Clay. There was no swelling occurred, instead the sample got compressed under seating load...

11 December 2017 5,229 5 View

Is there any criteria for allowable loss of moisture content in Undisturbed Soil Sample ?

IS code 1892 recommends use of UDS within 2 weeks of extracting from borehole. If this duration exceeds, is there any criteria for calculating loss of moisture and allowable loss.

10 November 2017 6,444 2 View

How to assign interface element in MIDAS GTS 2013?

How to assign soil-other material or other material-other material interface element in MIDAS GTS 2013? Thank you.

07 August 2016 8,649 2 View

What are the latest techniques/methods for analyzing pile-raft foundations ?

Want to know about latest methods of analysis of pile-raft system and their benefits. Thank you.

06 July 2016 2,340 0 View

What are the latest trends in Ground Improvement Techniques ?

I would like to know about advanced methods of ground improvement and/or advancement in conventional methods that are already in use. Thank you !

31 December 2015 5,104 2 View

What is the relation between matric suction and tensile strength of soil?

How tensile strength is used to determine matric suction and vice versa?

09 October 2015 406 1 View

What are the different methods (experimental and theoretical) to determine tensile strength of clay or sand in saturated and unsaturated condition ?

Different experimental and theoretical methods that are used in practice to determine tensile strength of sand and clay in saturated and unsaturated condition.

09 October 2015 6,049 7 View

What are the precautions to be taken while mixing fibre for reinforcing soil?

11 December 2014 442 7 View

How can I measure water content of fibre reinforced soil?

After doing compaction test on fibre reinforced soil, how can we measure water content in the soil samples we take out each time. What are the various methods for this?

11 December 2014 2,297 5 View

Is there a classification scheme for rock cavities or caverns with respect to their size and shape?

The range of forms and sizes of cavities in rock is very big. Is there a classification scheme for rock cavities regarding their size and shape?

02 March 2021 4,511 3 View

Timeout error!! Processor in the loop (PIL) using STM32F4 Matlab 2018a?

Dear Researchers I am trying to perform a PIL simulation using STM32F4 Discovery board and comunication serial USB TO TTL. During simulation I receive the following timeout error: An error...

01 March 2021 2,327 1 View

How the wettability of rock sample can be changed by ageing in pure hydrocarbon oils only?

I want to do wettability analysis of hydrocarbon oil (octane)/rock/surfactant solution system. but to do the analysis first I have to make rock surface oil-wet. Since hydrocarbon oil does not have...

27 February 2021 5,383 3 View

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I am trying to find how to know the density needed for a pva electrospinning in a 0.6mm neddle, the electrospinning will be from top to bottom and the problem I really have is the solution because...

25 February 2021 2,615 3 View

How Can I clain a removal of a co-author?

I would like to make a correction in a co-author in your paper which is wrong. This name is also in other papers of Kenton Ko. Zey Ko is not a Co-author . The correct name is Zdenka...

24 February 2021 3,476 4 View

Any references about insects or animals that can damage or weathering of rock or fossil material?

Are there any references to insects or animals that can cause damage or weathering to the rock or fossil material? books or paper that would be nice. Thank you very much!

24 February 2021 6,805 3 View

How does the injection volume impact LLOQ and ULOQ in regression analysis (LC-MSMS)?

Hello, I have run into an issue that has sparkled a debate at work: is the LLOQ/ULOQ impacted by injection volume under the following circumstances: 1) Same dilution factor of all samples 2)...

23 February 2021 9,159 3 View

Physical-chemical formation of stalactites/stalagmites. what promotes the formation/growth of these structures?

I know, or think I do, the basic idea behind these natural structures, as from what I know they form due to water dripping from the top leaving a salt deposit behind. But started to wonder about...

22 February 2021 1,400 4 View

Difficulty in debugging code to correct error - TypeError: '<' not supported ?

I am trying with a Unet code ontained from net ...in tensorflow. When trying to predict the segmentation result with the trained and saved model with metric " iou" using "CustomObjectScope"...

22 February 2021 5,254 1 View

How to perform Haldane correction on SPSS?

I was wondering if anyone knew how to perform the Haldane correction for SPSS (this is the definition of the correction -...

21 February 2021 2,882 1 View