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 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 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

Joint behaviour in Abaqus is not captured well?

I am working on roof joint and trying to simulate the behaviour in Abaqus. I am successful in running the model but the final graph does not follow the experimental curve in the negative direction...

01 March 2021 6,661 3 View

How to classify strictly upper triangular matrices by similarity?

Let F be a field. Consider U, the set of n times n strictly upper triangular matrices in F. For X, Y in U, we call them similar if there exists some S, which is non-degenerate and upper...

01 March 2021 2,957 8 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

How can I generate random samples from Bingham distribution in R? How can I construct those symmetric matrices?

in the function rbingham(n,A) in R software how can I construct that A (symmetric) matrix?

24 February 2021 3,528 3 View

Is this the write procedure for acid digestion of soil for heavy metal analysis using AAS?

How to do acid digestion of soil sample with 3:1 aquaregia in an open vessel?

23 February 2021 3,053 7 View

How to formulate Energy minimization in Molecular dynamics simulation for alloys using meam potential?

during MD simulation, the atoms are not moving as per required. The problem (as per my observation) lies in energy minimization technique. upon application of tensile strain in x or y direction,...

22 February 2021 380 5 View

What are effects of steel jacketing on flexural strength?

Dear all, If steel jacketing is used to retrofit a reinforced-concrete (RC) column, can we use it to improve flexural strength? I understand that we leave gaps between the ends of the jacket and...

22 February 2021 1,906 5 View

Are there packages (R or Python) for simple models (bucket?) to assess soil water content?

Hi everyone. I am researching droguht effects on soil water drought. I am looking for already implemented functions in R or Python to estimate soil water content from precipitation,...

21 February 2021 2,084 1 View

Which type of loading is to be used in dynamic analysis of Machien foundation?

Hello Everyone, Hope you all are doing well. I'm trying to simulate a machine foundation in ABAQUS with a geo-cell reinforced soil bed. Im totally confused to which type of loading would be...

21 February 2021 4,388 3 View

How to model rupture in geogrid in abaqus?

Hi researchers I wanna model tensile test on geogrid in abaqus, so I added displacement to one side of geogrid and the other side of geogrid is constrained completely, everything seems normal but...

19 February 2021 2,195 2 View