Abstract: Vertical drains and preloading are very effective and economical ground modification techniques for accelerating primary consolidation and compensating some secondary compression of soft compressible soils. If vertical ...

Abstract: Clay particles are usually treated as lyophobic colloids and, thus, colloid chemistry provides a means for description of interactions in a clay-water-electrolyte system. The Stern-Gouy-Chapman theory of diffuse double ...

Abstract: The stresses and displacements in the vicinity of a Griffith crack in a semiinfinite two-dimensional elastic medium subjected to a variable internal pressure are analyzed by polynomial approximation and Fourier transform, ...

Abstract: The advection-dispersion equation is often used to describe subsurface contaminant solute transport in a homogeneous, isotropic, and saturated geologic porous medium. An analytical solution to the equation has been developed ...

Abstract: Electrokinetic extraction has been demonstrated to be very effective in removing heavy metals from Georgia kaolinite. The relatively high removal efficiency depends on the extremely acidic soil environment generated by the ...

Abstract: Soil vapor extraction (SVE) is a proven effective in situ technology for the removal of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the subsurface. However, most systems designed to date are based on empirical methods, ...