Abstract: The employment of nontraditional materials such as soil-rock mixtures, for economic and environmental reasons, in the construction of earthworks poses some new challenges for compaction techniques and their control, and ...

Abstract: Based on an extensive testing program, this study presents the mechanical behavior of a lightweight expanded clay aggregate (LWA). This material is currently being used in many civil engineering works and particularly in ...

Abstract: In the one-phase construction of cutoff walls, the slurry plays two contradictory roles: it should be fluid while excavating the trench but behave like a solid of low permeability afterward. For hydraulic containment ...

Abstract: In zoned dams, some types of materials, when located upstream of a damaged core, may impose high hydraulic losses capable of limiting the flows converging toward the flaw in the core. In this paper, the factors influencing ...

Abstract: In the one-phase construction of cutoff walls, the slurry plays two contradictory roles: it should be fluid while excavating the trench but behave like a solid of low permeability afterward. For hydraulic containment ...