What is the relationship between soil pH and adding alkali-activator?

Dear all, I do research on a kind of clay and use NaOH as an alkali-activator for stabilization. The pH 2,4,6 mol. of NaOH solution are 12.9,13, and 13.1, respectively. The pH of natural soil is...

09 October 2019 3,813 2 View

What software do you recommend for plagiarism checking?

Dear all, What software do you recommend for plagiarism checking of technical papers? Regards MJM

09 October 2018 613 13 View

Why Acid treatment is done for biomass ashes activation?

Dear All, We know that acid treatment usually done for biomass ash (like Rice husk ash) activation. According to the some researches acid treatment (by some acids like HCL) increases specific...

08 September 2018 7,251 0 View

How long does it take to publish a paper?

Dear all, Does anyone know an address that shows How long does it take to publish a paper?? However, there are some in Elsevier ( https://journalfinder.elsevier.com ) and Springer ( Springer...

06 July 2018 4,577 18 View

What is the best temperature for producing ashes??

Hi everyone, I want to know what is the best temperature and duration for producing ash from agricultural waste?? regarding that I want to use it as Alkali activator for clay stabilization....

10 November 2017 6,507 4 View

Which dissolved ash has the most pH??

Dear all, As it is known, the pH of distilled water increase with dissolving ashes in it. It is because of some metallic oxides contents like NaO, k2O, etc, of the ashes. So, I want to know which...

10 November 2017 1,183 6 View

What is the best technique for perimeter building waterproofing and drainage?

06 July 2017 6,352 4 View

XPS technique for introducing bonds between stabilized clay?

Hi every one I want to know if XPS (X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy ) can be used to introducing bonds between chemically stabilized clay?? Regards

01 February 2017 1,350 4 View

Reinforced Wall for fine soils?

What is the most effective way to Reinforced fine soils like clay ? for example could strip reinforcement used for fine soils??? As reinforced walls should be backfilled with coarse materials like...

08 September 2016 5,409 4 View

How to measure matric suction in unsaturated soil??

07 August 2016 9,719 2 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

Research on Supply Chain Management in Indian context?

Hi, I am planning to apply for the PhD degree in the Supply Chain Mgt. with specific area of "Cold Storage warehouses" during Pandemics and wars. Where lock downs and shut downs are frequent....

02 March 2021 285 2 View

What is the procedure to determine the permeability of concrete?

can anyone help me in this, it will help me with my research work

01 March 2021 834 3 View

How can you bring two structures together to create an adhesive bond in LAMMPS?

I have created an Ice 1h crystalline structure and an Aluminium substrate structure and equilibrated both at 250K. Now I need to bring them together in a way that an adhesive bond is created....

01 March 2021 3,325 2 View

Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS?

I need to model masonry and reinforced concrete minarets for my MSc thesis. Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS? (Or any other program for just...

01 March 2021 736 3 View

Apart from Nanosilica and CNT's what are the other nanomaterials readily available to use in concrete mixture?

Nanotechnology in concrete materials

01 March 2021 3,379 3 View

Concrete compressive strength databases?

I am looking for datasets similar to this one: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Concrete+Compressive+Strength I am looking for concretes with different types of aggregates (Recycled,...

27 February 2021 6,801 3 View

Necessary tube lenght to cool Natural gas in a dry-ice cooling bath?

I have a tank which contains natural gas at 250 Bar and 293 Kelvin. I want to cool the gas in a dry-ice cooling bath to about 195 Kelvin. The gas will flow in a copper-tube through the bath with a...

27 February 2021 8,128 1 View

LEDs on Vis Light photo degradation of MB water sol via N doped TiO2 in a mini flume?

Good day to all, I have no experience with light emitting diodes. I am building a glass mini flume to demonstrate the photo degradation of Methylene Blue in water running over self cleaning...

26 February 2021 4,026 5 View

What is the best way to calculate the angles of twist for concrete columns subjected to torsional moment using finite element software?

In Finite element software like ANSYS , there is difficulty in obtaining direct results of twisting of concrete members because SOLID65 which is the unique element designed to represent concrete...

26 February 2021 3,806 2 View