Preliminary results of dry Deep Soil Mixing soil-cement composite testing

Preliminary assessment of microbial-based soil additives

The Effectiveness of Deep Soil Mixing on Enhanced Bearing Capacity and Reduction of Settlement on Loose Sandy Soils

A large portion of Iran railway routes are located in sandy desert areas. Therefore, paying attention to soil stabilization methods seems essential. In present study, in parallel to introducing the deep soil mixing as an efficient and economic method of soil improvement, in the frame work of a practical example, assuming loose sandy soil parameters, feasibility of the method application is inve...

Preliminary adult soil ingestion estimates: results of a pilot study.

Six adults were evaluated for the extent to which they ingest soil. This study was originally part of a large childhood soil ingestion study and was used to validate part of the analytical methodology used in that larger study. The adult study followed the soil tracer methodology of the children's study. The principal findings of the adult study revealed that the four most reliable tracer eleme...

Deep influence of soil microbes.

A single gram of soil is said to contain more than 8 billion bacterial cells, representing up to 50,000 different species1. These microorganisms play important roles, from tweaking how plants interact with their surroundings to influencing the chemical composition of the environment2. Now, the increased affordability of DNA sequencing technologies has enabled scientists to gain a deeper underst...

Study on the Geotechnical Properties of Cement based Composite Fine-grained Soil

This study investigates the effect of cement on the performance of soil, collected from Khanjahan Ali Hall at Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET) in Khulna, Bangladesh. The addition of cement was found to improve the engineering properties of available soil in stabilized forms specifically strength, workability, and compaction and compressibility characteristics. Therefore, lab...