Abstract: In underground crude oil storage facilities, concrete plugs are mainly required to contain crude oil inside caverns and are designed as gas-tight to prevent movement of any oil or vapor across the tunnel, either in a ...

Abstract: The capital city of India, Delhi, lies in the Indo-Gangetic alluvial trough. The soils of the Delhi region are known as “Delhi silt” because of the dominance of silt and, by and large, are nonplastic. The strength properties ...

Abstract: This study investigates the drained stress-strain-volume change behavior of Delhi silt under triaxial compression and extension loading conditions using two different existing constitutive models, the hardening soil (HS) ...