Sentence examples for compacted fill from inspiring English sources

Moreover, both the simulation and field monitoring showed that climatic effects are limited to a shallow depth, which results from the low permeability of the compacted fill.

The common predictable result is an urban pervious landscape with greatly diminished infiltration capacity in greenspace that might best be described as grass growing in a thin veneer of topsoil on compacted fill.

Due to the natural relative abundance of these soils, availability, favorable engineering properties, they have been very useful for construction of foundation, roads, airfields, low-cost housing and compacted fill in earth embankments (Gidigasu 1983; Autret 1983; Ekodeck 1984; Sikali and Mir-Emarati 1986; Bagarre 1990; Tardy 1992 Tockol et al. 1994; Ojo and Adeyemi 2003).

Used on solidly compacted fill material (subgrade), this concrete performs satisfactorily for these projects, but many professional concrete workers prefer a higher strength product due to warranty concerns, and some building codes may not allow its use for all of these applications.

For heavy duty use, like the fire department access ramp in the illustrations, crushed concrete base material was installed over compacted fill to a depth of 8 inches (20.cm), then packed to a 95 percent density using a plate compactor.

(iii) Culverts shall be covered by compacted fill to a minimum depth of one foot.

Moreover, with older compacted fills that have limited records from construction, there is no existing methodology that can help practicing engineers assess their postconstruction condition.

Closely spaced layers of geosynthetic reinforcement and compacted granular fill material can provide direct bearing support for structural bridge members if designed and constructed properly.

The soil was again compacted to fill the upper half of the mould to obtain a fixed unit weight of 15.8kN/m3.

The important thing to note, is that the compaction of the soil is what will support the weight of the concrete, as well as the subsequent load of vehicles using the drive, so the importance of having compacted, stable fill material cannot be overstated.

It had always been that the roads around town were better in winter, when a hard crust of dry, compacted snow filled in all the potholes and offered plenty of traction.