Sentence examples for fine grained soil from inspiring English sources

The overwhelming causes for these cases of poor performance were (i) backfilling with improperly draining fine grained soil and (ii) contractors deficiencies which could have been avoided with proper quality control and inspection.

It appears that the low N k values reported elsewhere pertain to fully saturated and normally consolidated fine grained soil samples.

Matzler explained that, unlike hair ice, needle ice grows from pores in fine grained soil or pebbles.

This model suggests that consumption of homegrown produce accounts for only 3% of children's daily exposure of lead while ingestion of fine grained soil (<100 μm) accounts for 82% of the daily exposure.

Sediments in 3 parts of alluvial fan: proximal, mid fan and distal fan are made up of different sizes of particles with larger stones and gravel at proximal fan, a mixture of fine grained soil and small gravel at mid fan, and sand and silt at proximal fan.

The appearance of Haft Tappeh soil samples consist of a fine grained soil with many white particles that may be the remnants of gypsum used as the binder or plaster in the Elamite buildings of Haft Tappeh [48, 49].

This process highlights that fine grained soils present in the right-of-way of HSR projects can be upgraded and used as materials for the capping layer.

This newly proposed model is verified by using measured shear modulus at very small strains for three different low plasticity fine grained soils available in the literature.

The soil type and stress history effects on the q c –S u relationship were investigated for Sudanese fine grained soils with different OCR values [17].

Coarse grained soils were observed to have a larger thermal conductivity than fine grained soils.

In the second category are fine grained soils, gap-graded soils, dispersive clays and ochre.