Abstract—The aim of this paper is to present a parametric study to determine the major factors that influence the calculations of current rating for both air and underground cables. The current carrying capability of the power cables rely largely on the installation conditions and material properties. In this work, the influences on ampacity of conductor size, soil thermal resistivity and ambie...

Proximal sensing of soil electromagnetic properties is widely used to map spatial land heterogeneity. The mapping instruments use galvanic contact, capacitive coupling or electromagnetic induction. Regardless of the type of instrument, the geometrical configuration between signal transmitting and receiving elements typically defines the shape of the depth response function. To assess vertical s...

A controlled experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of complex electrical resistivity tomography (CERT) for detecting and delineating free product dense non aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) in the subsurface. One hundred ninety liters of PCE were released at a rate of 2 liters per hour from a point 0.5 m below ground surface. The spill was conducted within a double walled tank where s...

The most common method of monitoring and mapping groundwater contaminants is to extract and analyse a number of groundwater samples from wells in the investigation area. However, there are a number of limitations with this type of point-wise investigation, as it is hard to acquire an adequate picture of a heterogeneous and anisotropic subsurface using a few points. To overcome the limitations o...

An acoustic backscatter technique proposed by Oelze et al. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 1826-1832 (2001)] was used to characterize the roughness of porous soil surfaces. Roughness estimation errors are minimized when the effective flow resistivity of the porous soil is high, e.g., above 300,000 mks Rayls/m. Four soil plots were constructed by roughening soil with farming implements. Three plots we...

this paper is devoted to compiling a site geology map for town of amiriyeh, from seismic macro-zonation point of view using geophysical methods of shallow seismic, down-hole seismic and resistivity surveys. in this map site geology has been classified based on shear wave velocity, according to the criteria for site geology classification offered in the iranian code of practice for seismic resis...