Sentence examples for hardened soil from inspiring English sources

The walls are made of various materials including metal and translucent polycarbonate, which admits a gentle light; the floor is made in a traditional Japanese style, using hardened soil, here mixed with a little cement.

Then in a finer concord than any ritual, a strong, serviceable marriage emerges: As green shoots through hardened soil where nothing seemed to be, so tenderness, caresses, jokes grew out of her and me.

Arable fields become particularly important feeding areas during summer months, when earthworms are difficult to find in the hardened soil [ 21] and badgers feed on cereals and grain on these fields instead [ 20, 21, 61].

After hardening, soil mix elements with improved mechanical and hydraulic characteristics are realized.

The numerical results indicated that the hardening soil model with the soil modulus obtained from in situ pressuremeter tests yields reasonable predictions for excavation-induced wall deformation.

The GA optimization approach tends to overpredict surface settlements at some distance from the excavation as it is constrained by a specific form of the material constitutive model (i.e. hardening soil model); while the surface settlements computed using SelfSim approach match the observed ones due to its ability to learn small strain non-linearity of soil implied in the measured settlements.

The hardening soil model proposed by Schanz et al., (1999) that was initially introduced by Duncan and Chang (1970) was used to simulate the granular backfill materials; a linear-elastic model with Mohr-Coulomb frictional criterion was used to simulate the interface between the geosynthetic and backfill material.

For the first time in the world, a ground freezing method was used to harden soil to act as rock to allow TBMs to maintain proper course while boring and placing the tunnel liners".

The Hardening Soil model and the correlation obtained may be applied to similar soil conditions as the Kenny Hill Formation.

Then, with these input parameters, considering Hardening Soil model with Small Strain stiffness (HSS model), FEM program PLAXIS is used for parameter studies, producing coefficients in the equations of attenuation law of the displacements of the soil.

In this paper, the PLAXIS 3-D finitetion finitelementnt (FE) software package, in conjunction with the nonlinear Hardening Soil (HS) constitutive model, is employed in an extensive parametric study of the angular distortion of piled foundations.