It has been observed that anisotropic nature of rocks is assumed to be caused by disparity in their petrography (mineralogy, texture and micro-structures) including physical properties. These variations have been revealed to occur even in locations where there are only a few centimetres apart on most outcrops. Furthermore, comparable rock types in most localities may not yield the same engineer...

asphalt modification/reinforcement has received considerable attention as viable solutions to enhance flexible pavement performance. this is mainly prompted by the unsatisfactory performance of traditional road materials exposed to dramatic increases and changes in traffic patterns. this paper presents the evaluation of fatigue behaviour of nano reinforced stone mastic asphalt mixtures. fatigue...

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...

The glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) rebar reinforced cemented soil is widely employed to solve the weak foundation problem led by sludge particularly. robustness of this structure highly dependent on interface bond strength between GFRP tendon and soils. However, its application obstructed owing deficient studies influence factors. Therefore, study investigates effects water content ( C w...

Soil stabilization is the alteration of physicomechanical properties soils to meet specific engineering requirements problematic soils. Laboratory examination well recognized as appropriate for examining stabilized soils; however, they are labor-intensive, time-consuming, and expensive. In this work, four artificial intelligence based models (OMC-EM, MDD-EM, UCS-EM+, UCS-EM−) predict optimum mo...

treatment temperature increased, especially at temperatures in excess of 450~ However, the strength decreases were small (less than 15%), and the concrete strength was still within typical values for structural concrete. The leachability tests showed that as treatment temperature was increased, levels of PAHs in the soil significantly decreased. From the leachability tests performed on samples ...

In the feature extraction stage, features representing speaker information are extracted from the speech signal. In the present study LP residual derived from the speech data is used for training and testing and also processing of LP residual in time domain at subsegmental, segmental and suprasegmental levels. In the training phase, GMMs are built, one for each speaker, using the training data ...

This paper deals with statistical tests on the components of mixture densities. We propose to test whether the densities of two independent samples of independent random variables Y 1 ,. .. , Y n and Z 1 ,. .. , Z n result from the same mixture of M components or not. We provide a test procedure which is proved to be asymptotically optimal according to the minimax setting. We extensively discus...