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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"structural soil"”.
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Trees and Structural Soil as a Stormwater Management System in Urban Settings
… confines of urban spaces. We propose a system of structural soil and trees that can be incorporated beneath pavement. Structural soil has a high load-bearing capacity yet is engineered to support tree root growth. Stormwater is directed into a structural soil reservoir below the pavement where …
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Stormwater Treatment by Two Retrofit Infiltration Practices
… effectiveness of a bioretention cell and a CU-Structural Soil™ infiltration trench. BMP construction was completed in July 2007. Twenty-nine precipitation events were monitored over a period of five months between October 2007 and March 2008. For each storm, inflow and outflow composite samples …
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Decarbonization strategies for North American urban landscapes: Evaluating pavements and vegetation across design typologies
… significant emissions from transportation and structural soil. Landscape systems were used to benchmark four urban typologies—streetscapes, plazas, courtyards, and urban parks. Their 50-year carbon footprints range from –80 to 21 kgCO₂e/m² in urban parks, –13 to 63 in courtyards, 22 to 79 in …
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Innovation in Piezoceramic Based Structural Health Monitoring
Recent structural failures in both developing and developed countries highlight the importance of structural health monitoring, which has the ability to provide early warning based on real time monitoring of the structure of interest. The versatile functions and low cost of piezoceramic material …