Sentence examples for consolidated soil from inspiring English sources

Hence from the second inflation onwards, the geosynthetic tube is filled by both slurry and consolidated soil.

This is most probably due to the behavior of over consolidated soil caused by the old bridge.

This is mainly because of a Korean offshore soil profile, involving an over 30 m normally consolidated soil, with a strength that varies linearly with depth.

In this paper, a numerical solution is provided for the development of negative skin friction of a pile in nonlinear consolidated soil under different loads on a pile top.

Parametric studies are also carried out to compare the design between geosynthetic tubes inflated using pure slurry and that using slurry and consolidated soil to study the key factors affecting the design.

The effect of friction and lateral earth pressure on the geometry and tensile forces of the geosynthetic tube is insignificant when the height of the consolidated soil in the tube is small, but increases considerably with an increase in the height.

This specific behavior of the red clay soils studied is thought to be related to the history of their parent materials: these materials are continental sediments which may have been submitted to great hydric stress, thus leading to strongly consolidated soils with consequences such as a high proportion of poorly available water, strong aggregation and weak shrinkage properties.

In general, low N k values were found by many authors for soft and normally consolidated soils whereas relatively high N k values were reported in few studies for some tropical and overconsolidated cohesive soils.

Under certain conditions, for instance, in normally consolidated soils at rest, (K) has been suggested to depend on the shearing resistance ((phi)) (Jaky 1944; Radoslaw and Michalowski 2005), given as K = 1 - sin phi.

Considering the strain soften effect of over-consolidated soil, cavity cylinder balance equation is modified in the damage zone.

In this paper, considering the strain softening effect, the cavity expansion theory is improved for over-consolidated soil.