Abstract: Unsaturated clays are subject to osmotic suction gradients in geoenvironmental engineering applications and it therefore becomes important to understand the effect of these chemical concentration gradients on soil-water ...

Abstract: Phosphogypsum is added to building materials to accelerate fly ash pozzolanic reaction and contributes to early strength development of concrete. The release of unacceptable fluoride levels by phoshogypsum on contact with ...

Abstract: Lime–fly ash reactions play a key role in improving the mechanical strength and tailoring the permeability characteristics of compacted fly ash. Activation of fly ash–lime pozzolanic reactions should accelerate the rate ...

Abstract: This paper examines the influence of variations in matric suction on the collapse behavior of compacted Bangalore clay soil. The ASTM filter paper method measured the matric suctions of the compacted soil specimens. The ...

Abstract: Bentonite clay is identified as potential buffer in deep geological repositories (DGR) that store high level radioactive wastes (HLW) as the expansive clay satisfies the expected mechanical and physicochemical functions ...

Abstract: To reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the use of cement and lime in civil engineering applications, microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) is one of the sustainable technologies being explored. MICP ...

Abstract: Absorbed moisture is generally thought to have a plasticizing effect upon the mechanical behavior of polymers. This paper presents some experimental results illustrating the effects of water ...

Abstract: The conservation laws for a plane fluid flow were simplified by the weak wave approximations valid for sonic boom-type waves and applied to a field of mesh points, utilizing the “artificial ...

Abstract: A new axisymmetric plasticity theory of fibrous composites which was developed by the authors is applied to problems involving large uniform thermal changes. The determination of loading surfaces ...