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Muawia Dafalla and Ahmed M. Al-Mahbashi
The major problematic soils in semi-arid regions include expansive soils and collapsible soils. These two types of soils cause problems and are hazardous for buildings when moisture is introduced following a dry or semi-dry season. In order to assess the...
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Jian Hou, Yiyang Lu, Jian?an Wang and Kaihang Yu
Collapsible loess is a kind of soil with special properties, and is widely distributed in China. When it is not wetted by water, its strength is generally high and its compressibility is low. However, when collapsible loess is wetted by water under a cer...
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Breno Padovezi Rocha, Isabela Augusto Silveira, Roger Augusto Rodrigues, Paulo Cesar Lodi and Heraldo Luiz Giacheti
Collapsible soils are unsaturated low-density soils that undergo abrupt settlement when flooded without any increase in the in-situ stress level. The first stage of the site characterization is identifying collapsible soils, since these are problematic s...
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Tamarah R. King, Mark Quigley and Dan Clark
We digitize surface rupture maps and compile observational data from 67 publications on ten of eleven historical, surface-rupturing earthquakes in Australia in order to analyze the prevailing characteristics of surface ruptures and other environmental ef...
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P. O. Donchenko,D. V. Hretskyi,V. M. Konoval
Pág. 175 - 178
The article considers application of the method of erecting pile foundation with antifriction coverage in waterrepellant sprinkling. It has been noted that in application of the sprinkling protective screen from water-repellant soil is being formed for p...
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Miriam Gonçalves Miguel, Antonio Belincanta, Carlos Jose Marques da Costa Branco, Raquel Souza Teixeira (Author)
Pág. 1579 - 1587
The behavior of horizontally loaded bored piles in a collapsible soil was studied. Experimental investigation comprised four horizontal load tests performed on two piles at each time, located at the Experimental Foundation Field at the State University o...
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