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Is there any material which changes into liquid state when given certain vibration such as earthquake? As we know that when we vibrate saturated sand, liquefaction takes places and the sandy soil...
28 January 2020 2,764 3 View
I am tasked to prepare 100g of loam soil composed of 77.5% silt, 12.8% clay, and 9.7% sand. The water content of the soil must be 55% of its maximum water-holding capacity. How must I compute and...
25 January 2020 9,696 3 View
Dear community, I was wondering about the storage of 1:5 soil:water extract for the determination of soil pH and EC. Does the extract need to be analyzed immediately after the extraction? Or the...
18 January 2020 3,180 3 View
Please, can any one help me with simulating an incremental load test on stone column, what are the phases and loading type to be used, considering the soil is soft clay and the test was carried...
06 January 2020 8,436 3 View
Dear scientists and researchers, There's a standpipe casing which has so many displacement throughout its alignment (bended or misaligned) in the ground. It made the reading impossible since the...
03 December 2019 9,473 4 View
Dear all, As can be seen in the attached picture, shortly after the saturation of marl clay, it started to collapse. Although marl contains large amounts of calcium carbonate, it is not...
28 November 2019 4,588 3 View
I am looking for a numerical model, equation or law, which supports the ground subsidence due leakage in underground water pipelines or interaction of water and subsurface soil. Thank you
13 November 2019 2,105 3 View
If we have to do the pesticides/herbicide testing of green leafy and fruit vegetables, 1. What are the important chemical components we need a check? and 2. What is the permissible limits of...
15 October 2019 5,584 2 View
For example I have 1.2 kg of dry soil with 0% moisture content, how much water should I add to increase moisture content to 18.67%?
10 October 2019 2,099 3 View
There are three primary areas of ground movement towards a pressurised TBM: at the face, along the shield skin and at the tail void -(In the attached figure). Can the maximum surface Settelment of...
15 September 2019 10,082 3 View
Dear all, I´m looking for literature (especially that difficult-to-find: very old, very local, languages different to English, etc.) related to differences on the composition and amount of sap...
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What are the indicators of biochars for possessing higher aromaticity produced by slow pyrolysis process? Generally at higher temperatures the pyrolyzed biochars show higher aromaticity. What are...
09 September 2019 5,520 4 View
Hi all, I am looking for studies that compared soil texture results obtained from field tests (ribbon test, jar test, throw-the-ball test, sausage test, etc.) with results obtained from...
09 September 2019 10,061 7 View
I, being a Bangladeshi student, has hometown and ancestral home on Haor region of Mymensingh division. Wherever I have seen digging for foundation of buildings, tubewells,ponds or so, especially...
09 September 2019 9,844 6 View
I compacted unbound aggregates at optimum moisture content and then let it dry in the oven for one day. The repeated load triaxial test was carried out on this sample in which I faced a weird...
08 August 2019 3,549 9 View
What is the sinkhole/subsidence/ ground collapse mechanism under a leaking sewer pipeline in a non-krast urban area (areas with no carbonate rocks or lime stone)? Because sinkhole also use to...
08 August 2019 7,434 6 View
We are going to use biochar on microbial culture media. At this situation, we are searching for the optimum dose (ammount of biochar in 1 lit of microbial culture media). Please inform if anyone...
08 August 2019 1,836 5 View
I searched online but I could not find any answer to it. Does anyone ever measures it or knows a work on this topic with that info? Thanks :)
11 July 2019 1,692 3 View
I want to estimate the mass of organic and inorganic carbon in mostly carbonatic sand samples (90% Calcite /Dolomite). There is little evidences of clays in my samples, which add error to the...
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How we can separate the modern and ancient impacts on soils from each others?
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