Sentence examples for soil damp from inspiring English sources
Keep the soil damp, not waterlogged.
Just keep the soil damp, so germinating seeds and seedlings don't dry out.
Keep the soil damp, since containers tend to dry out, and fertilize with a diluted fish or seaweed solution every few weeks.
The goal is to keep the soil damp but not sopping wet, according to Cornell University's Department of Horticulture.
Keep the soil damp, but not soaked.
A damping ratio of 20% (critical) is identified as effective soil damping for the monopile, which is estimated to correspond to a 0.14% damping ratio contribution from the soil for the full structure.
The determination of soil damping is therefore a much less trivial task on soils than on structures.
The overall amplitude of the response spectra also decreases as the slope angle increases due to an increase in soil damping at larger shear strains.
A cyclic loading is considered and the soil stiffness based on the Winkler and Kelvin models is calculated and compared while the soil damping for the Kelvin model is computed.
The main objective of this paper is to contribute to a quantification of the effect of soil damping on the most important design variables in the seismic response of building structures with prismatic rectangular foundations.
