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

Formula for size correction factor while performing UCS on rock ?

A correction factor is normally applied when Length/Diameter ratio of rock specimen is less than 2. Please guide which formula to use with solid reference such as ASTM, BIS or IS. Thanks.

09 October 2017 1,924 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 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

error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

MGL tools

20 June 2021 0 0 View

what is the simplest definition of ion exchange capacity

What this unit identifies for the ion exchange capacity ca. 0.92 meq. g-1. I am a newcomer in the membrane area. I just started. I highly appreciate your help

08 May 2021 0 0 View

what is the simplest definition of ion exchange capacity

What this unit identifies for the ion exchange capacity ca. 0.92 meq. g-1. I am a newcomer in the membrane area. I just started. I highly appreciate your help

08 May 2021 0 0 View

i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

24 March 2021 0 0 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

What is the most Operating System (OS) which can be INSTALL on Tiny hard devices like Raspberry Pi (RPi) hardware ?

I'm targeting to deploy a mesh network and manually configure MANET routing protocols. I'm preparing scenarios, architectures, and hard devices needed to do that. Are there some step-by-step...

03 March 2021 1,931 5 View

Can we classify HV and LV lines based on line length?

I have dataset which shows the length of power lines. I need to classify the lines based on the line length. Is there a rule to classify the High voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV) lines based on...

03 March 2021 4,116 4 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View