Sand-gravel mixtures are special engineering geological materials between soils and fractured rocks. This study performs a series of bending element tests to systematically investigate the shear wave velocity ( V s ) sand-gravel mixtures, establish an effective evaluation method, assess influence relative density confining pressure on with wide range gravel contents. The results showed that inc...

abstract saturated hydraulic conductivity (ks) is one of the most important physical properties of soils which is expensive and time-consuming to directly measure. hence, indirect methods, such as pedotransfer functions (ptfs), were developed to predict the ks. previous studies showed that most of the ptfs common in the literature can not suitably predict the ks. hence, this study was conducted...

To investigate hydrodynamic processes above and within river beds, laboratory experiments have been performed to quantify the interaction between turbulent flow and pressure fluctuations at a porous gravel bed. A 2-D Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) system measuring in streamwise vertical or horizontal planes above the gravel layer was used, synchronized with a pressure sensor array of 16 minia...

We define the notion of almost $n$-layered $QTAG$-modules and study their basic properties. One of the main result is that almost 1-layered modules are almost $(omega+1)$-projective exactly when they are almost direct sum of countably generated modules of length less than or equal to $(omega+1)$. Some other characterizations of this new class are also established.

This review reports recent advances in the field of polymer–layered silicate nano composites. Thesematerials have attracted both academic and industrial attention because they exhibit dramaticimprovement in properties at very low filler contents. Herein, the structure, preparation andproperties of polymer–layered silicate nanocomposites are discussed in general, and finally the effectof clay na...

designing and scheduling of drip irrigation systems are often done without enough information about water distribution in the soil. due to tillage operations and crop production practices, agricultural soils can be considered as two layered soils with different bulk densities. the top soil layer has a lighter texture than the sub soil layer. in this research, the development of the wetting fron...

In this article, corrosion behavior of the single-layered TiN, single-layered CrN and multi-layered TiN/CrN coatings have been fabricated on 420C stainless steel (SS) by Cathodic Arc Evaporation (CAE) method in Ringer's solution was studied. The electrochemical appraisal was done by the Potentiodynamic Polarization (PDP) and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) tests. Results of PDP tes...