Sentence examples for specimens of soil from inspiring English sources

In 1887 specimens of soil and rock were collected by the men of HMS Egeria; the British naturalist John Murray analyzed the specimens and found that they were nearly pure phosphate of lime.

The tensile strengths and compression strengths of compacted specimens of natural soil, lime and coir fiber treated soil were obtained using the indirect tensile test and unconfined compressive test.

Specimens of treated soil compacted with British Standard light, BSL or standard Proctor (relative compaction = 100%) were subjected to index, sieve analysis, compaction, and shear strength parameters tests.

Experimental programme comprises of preparation of specimens of dredged soil on addition of cement and also the mix of cement and bottom ash (1 1 ratio) aiming at the partial replacement of cement quantity.

Cylindrical specimen of raw soil and modified soil were prepared by compacting at different moulding pressures and were tested for sorption characteristics.

In previous works, the authors presented the outline of a method for measuring the moisture content in agricultural soils via elastic waves, along with experimental results obtained on a specimen of sandy soil.

To reliably use an angle of internal friction to estimate friction factor, a direct shear test on model specimen of the soil and concrete should be carried out using a range of normal stress that includes the normal stress expected in the field.

Nineteen combined axial torsional tests are conducted on hollow cylinder specimens of EPS composite soil to study its dynamic characteristics under the complex stress path induced by the simulated traffic loadings.

Unconfined compression tests were conducted on the soil specimens at various elapsed times after compaction to allow for ionic equilibrium due to the osmotic gradient in the third series of soil specimens.

The soil water retention curve is generally superimposed with the volume change of soil specimens.

Cooling curves of soil specimens were obtained to assess the freezing point depression caused by salinity.