7 Chapter Soil factors are an important consideration for successful wildland range development or improvement programs. Even though many soil improvement and amelioration practices are not realistic for wildlands, their evaluation is an important step in selection of adapted plant materials for revegetation. This chapter presents information for wildland managers on: the importance of soils ph...

In this paper a short overview is presented on the use of probabilistic calculations in order to increase the insight in the anticipated costs involved in a soil improvement strategy and to provide a useful tool for an economical optimisation.

This study focuses on evaluating the unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of improved fine-grained soils. A large database of unconfined compressive strength of clayey soil specimens stabilized with fly ash and blast furnace slag based geopolymer were collected and analyzed. Subsequently, using adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS), a model has been developed to assess the UCS of stabi...

Microbial-induced calcite precipitation (MICP) is a relatively green and sustainable soil improvement technique. It utilizes biochemical process that exists naturally in soil to improve engineering properties of soils. The calcite precipitation process is uplifted by the mean of injecting higher concentration of urease positive bacteria and reagents into the soil. The main objective of this pap...

stabilization, alter and improvement of engineering properties of soil are for providing predetermined goals. the most important aim of soil stabilization is increasing long term soil strength, but in very wet and loos lands the other aim of soil stabilization, is to decrease plasticity characteristic of soil, which are tested by atterberg limits tests. since the road soils of namkhane district...

In recent years rapid development of infrastructures in metro cities compounded with scarcity of useful land and compelled the engineers to improve the properties of soil to bear the load transferred by the infrastructure e.g Buildings, bridges, roadways railways etc. The engineering techniques of ground improvement are removal and replacement, pre-compression, vertical drains, in-situ densific...

Developing measure performance, especially in civil activities, is mainly based on economic or social approaches, regardless of its environmental effects. This matter has caused imbalances of human life and hazardous future for him. Modern human’s awareness of the imbalances in normal performance of the nature cycle, caused by technology, has led him to create some ideas such as sustainability ...