WETTING-INDUCED COLLAPSE BEHAVIOUR OF COMPACTED SILTY SOIL

COLLAPSE BEHAVIOUR OF PLATES UNDER THRUST

In line with the current research on the ultimate strength assessment of ship hull girders, careful understanding of the collapse behaviour of unstiffened plate elements within the ship hull girders is an important and necessary task. In this paper, the collapse behaviour of unstiffened plates under longitudinal and transverse thrust is studied by elastoplastic large deflection FEM and the char...

Behavior of Compacted Lime-soil Columns

This study presents the results of large scale laboratory model tests to investigate the behavior of Compacted Lime – Well-graded Soil (CL-WS) rigid stone columns in soft soils. The  unit cell idealization is used for construction of composite specimens by evaluating the influence of different parameters such as the diameter of the column (D), the slenderness ratio (L/D) and the area ratio (Ar)...

ASSESSEMENT OF SOIL COLLAPSE PREDICTION METHODS

Expansive and collapsible soils are some of the most widely distributed and costly of geologic hazards. These soils are subject to changes in volume and settlement in response to wetting and drying, often resulting in severe damage to structures. Collapsing soils are generally characterized by sudden and large volume decrease at constant stress when inundated with water. A geotechnical engineer...

Winter Wheat Growth in Artificially Compacted Soil

Static wetting behaviour of diblock copolymers

~ Thin liquid films of ordered dihlock copolymers deposited on a solid substrate form a multilayer stacking parallel to the solid surface. A multilayer with a finite extend can he stable, metastable, or unstable, depending on thc relative values of the surface ener&ics of the various interfaces. The spreading parameter and chemical potential of a n-layer are derived, and used for classifying al...