Sentence examples for sand settlement from inspiring English sources

Also, sand settlement by trees and grasses in the source area was researched.

In regions where the subgrade soils were dominated by silt, silty clay or fine sand, the settlement amount was higher than that in bedrock regions.

From the centrifuge test for shallow foundation on silica sand, the load-settlement curve was obtained and the elastic modulus in Table 2 were calculated through iterative numerical analysis in order to simulate the load-settlement curve from the test.

Without liquefaction, the settlement of sand caused by shaking is very small.

The settlement of sand specimens was measured and evaluated during and after each shaking test.

Granular columns have been introduced into engineering practice to improve the bearing capacity and reduce settlement of sand column in a weak or soft soil.

She sits in the sand in the informal settlement in eastern Lebanon that she and her family call home.

Sands cited a "possible settlement of matters presently under consideration at appeals in connection with the IRS audit".

Henri Stierlin has said the stunning work that will later this year be the showpiece of the city's reborn Neues Museum was created by an artist commissioned by Ludwig Borchardt, the German archaeologist credited with digging Nefertiti out of the sands of the ancient settlement of Amarna, 90 miles south of Cairo, in 1912.

The road heaved much and had extensive sand boiling Sinshih GF1 The settlement of building is minor due to soil liquefaction Sinshih GF2 The maximum settlement of column was about 10 cm.

Khayelitsha was prone to flooding because it had been a black-only settlement, built on sand; under apartheid, black people were consigned to the worst land.