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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"Soil mechanics"”.
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Soil mechanics of the Point Lookout landslide, Montezuma County, Colorado
Includes bibliographical references.
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The meaning and practical significance of the cohesion intercept in soil mechanics
… 300 natural deposits throughout the world. The soils which include soft clays to shales and residual soils, have a range of water content of 7-330%, liquid limit of 15-420%, plasticity index of 3-285%, liquidity index of $-$5.5 to 3.5, sensitivity up to 500, clay fraction of 2-93% and, activity …
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A hydraulic laboratory and a soil mechanics laboratory for Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1940.
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Lunar soil mechanics: distribution of contact stress beneath a rigid plate resting on sand.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil Engineering. Thesis. 1969. Sc.D.
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Assessment of the impact of climate change on an instrumented embankment: an unsaturated soil mechanics approach
… comprises embankments and cuttings built with soil material in an unsaturated state that is exposed to the climate. The BIONICS project (BIOlogical and eNgineering Impacts of Climate change on Slopes) aims to investigate how climate change will affect the serviceability and safety of earth …
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The application of critical state soil mechanics to predict ground deformations below an embankment constructed on soft alluvium
… construction were found to dissipate rapidly. Soil samples recovered from the site have been tested at city University. The alluvial clay is shown to have extremely variable compression characteristics and it is not possible to determine a single set of critical state soil parameters from the …
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Sistema automático de aquisição de dados para ensaio triaxial
… are analised in the ligth of critical state soil mechanics theory. This is hoped to contribute to the back calculation of the sanitary fill failure.
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Mechanics of jammed media used as a structural element
… element is very similar to analyses done in soil mechanics where the "strength" of the soil depends on the stress applied, the rate of stress application and the physical properties of the soil particles themselves. Most applications of soil mechanics (such as with buildings or vehicles) are …
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Soil improvement by vertical drains
… the framework of the traditional concepts of soil mechanics for consolidation analysis of soft clays with or without vertical drains. ILLICON allows multi-layer analysis with each individual layer having its own compressibility and hydraulic properties which may vary during consolidation. The …
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A GENERAL MODEL FOR MULTIPHASE MIXTURES AND APPLICATIONS
… namely the drying of grains, capillary rise and soil mechanics. In the first application it is shown how equations of balance present in the literature on drying can be obtained from the general model. In the second application the saturation profile of a fluid phase in a porous medium is …
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Rate-Dependent Behavior of Clay
… model for clays based on the critical-state soil mechanics. The model reproduces the mechanical response of clays under multi-axial loading conditions and predicts both drained and undrained behaviors at small and large strains. Model parameter values are determined for Boston Blue Clay, …
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The design of a fluidized bed for testing of a robotic burrowing device which mimics razor clams
… redistribution system that causes changes to the soil mechanics. This system will enable continued testing of the current RoboClam device and facilitate the development of the next generation burrowing device.
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Elastic analysis of soil media.
… to predict stresses and displacements in loaded soil media provided the non-linear stress-strain behaviour of the soil is recognised and allowance made for it in calculating displacements. This thesis examines the methods of elastic analysis suitable for examining problems in Soil Mechanics and …
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The Residual Strength of Liquefied Soil
… potential, the residual strength of liquefied soil is needed. However, this is an extremely difficult parameter to estimate for soil deposits due to spatial variability of soil properties, potential for the formation of water films, the intermixing of soils, and the potential for partial …
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Adensamento radial de argilas: programação automática e estudo experimental
A review of consolidation theory of soils specially radial drainage consolidation, pointing out original works by Brazilian Engineers. With the automatic programming in FORTRAN language to calculate degree of radial consolidation against Time Factor for any diameter ratio (circle of influence/drain …
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Development of a New Ring Shear Apparatus for Investigating the Critical State of Sands
… pertinent to liquefaction and critical state soil mechanics using an improved ring shear apparatus designed and constructed at the University of Illinois. Undrained/constant volume and drained triaxial compression and ring shear tests (sheared to about 30 m of shear displacement) were …
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Terramechanics of Saturated Clays: Assessing Tire Performance Through Experimental and Numerical Approaches
… terrain of saturated clays. Modeling cohesive soils with high water content is challenging due to their low shear strength and highly deformable nature, necessitating systematic consideration in both material modeling and numerical techniques. Saturated clay is marked by high plasticity, …
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The effect of fluid acceleration on sediment transport in the surf zone
… porous-media flow, adequate to create a soil-mechanics type failure extending several centimeters into a sandy sediment bed. The theoretical model of Madsen (1974) is extended to obtain estimates of subsurface transport by subdividing the sediment in failure into distinct, kinematically …
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Capacidade de carga de fundações submetidas a esforços verticais de tração
… Forces constitute a quite recent theme of Soil Mechanics; the principal researches have been developed since the early 60 decade. A great number of load tests - especially conducted for an important transmission line foundation project - have been performed on footings and piers, permitting …
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