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if the flow of water in a leaked underground water or sewer pipeline is: 1) Continuous flow 2) Non-continuous flow (Cyclic flow) In both cases which case is more risky when it comes to ground...
20 March 2019 4,974 3 View
The OECD provides a method to determine WHC. I have found that this is not transferable to "real" soils, and am investigating alternative methods. I would welcome advice about the OECD method or...
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How long do pesticides stay in the soil after spraying?
09 February 2019 7,280 3 View
I am looking for maps that provide information such as: soil type, degree of saturation, and any other parameter that can be used to estimate infiltration rate.
02 February 2019 2,766 8 View
Soil samples collected for analysis are stored in bags. It is not always possible to dry them or send them to the lab immediately. Will that affect SOC determination? or can soil samples be dried...
02 February 2019 4,486 3 View
Hello ! I have a question about PERMANOVA and PERMDISP. I have four types of vegetation (A, B, C, D) and two sets of environmental variables (Soil, with n variables and Climate, with m variables)....
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I'm planning an experiment for this upcoming summer and I'm in need of a good supplier of severely nutrient-impoverished river sand (washed) in the USA? Does anyone knows a company that sells this...
02 February 2019 4,541 5 View
Hello, I want to try to find the water bears in the soil, but I am considering about the water bears that can survive in a hot and acid/base environment? Thanks!
12 January 2019 5,296 4 View
There are 4 type cones: 1- base area 1 cm2 2-base area 2 cm2 3-base area 3.33 cm2 4-base area 5 cm2. According to ASAE standards, for soft soil they recommends base size 3.23 cm2 however the cone...
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I am running a critical state soil model by MS Excel. For the tri-axial compression drained test, I just input the vertical stress increment for a substep while keeping horizontal stress constant....
30 December 2018 2,343 2 View
The bad concrete strength is about 20 MPa, while the very good soil strength is about 200 kPa, Is that means the bad concrete is harder than the good soil by at least 100 times?
12 December 2018 2,492 0 View
Dear RG Members, Are there any approach to classifying soils from RGB images obtained by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)? Thanks
12 December 2018 6,677 0 View
Hello; I am looking for a method to calculate the ground temperature in order to calculate the heat loss of the building through the soil. thank you.
12 December 2018 9,155 0 View
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11 November 2018 1,651 2 View
hello dear researchers and professors i want to classify all soil slopes by mechanism for example the slopes have 10-40% density will have the failure mechanism of sliding any suggestion thanks
11 November 2018 4,664 6 View
I conducted CBR tests on unbounded aggregates. As you can see the CBR test results in the attachment, the curves concave up and there is a relatively enormous shift between two test results....
11 November 2018 1,538 7 View
I mean after doing the compaction practice in various water contents and determining the dry density corresponding to each water content, what would be the equation of the resultant compaction...
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We are working on increasing organic carbon content of soil in Maharashtra (India). We are looking for efficient methods to do so. Please suggest. Please also cite evidence whenever available.
21 October 2018 6,667 10 View
I am modeling soil in abaqus. Since soil is infinite media in reality, it is impossible to generate a model similar to infinity in abaqus. I would like to know about how to define the boundaries...
10 October 2018 2,713 2 View