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Hao Wang, Yejiao Wang and Fujie Jin
The swelling-shrinkage behavior of expansive soils under climate changes will cause the crack development, which can be destructive of expansive soil slopes. This study investigated the effect of drying/wetting cycles on the stability of an expansive soi...
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Abbas Ali Abid, Xiang Zou, Longda Gong, Antonio Castellano-Hinojosa, Muhammad Afzal, Hongjie Di and Qichun Zhang
Soil microbial communities play an important role in nutrient cycling; however, their response under repeated long-term fertilization has attracted little attention and needs further appraisal. A 14-day incubation study compared the relative abundance, d...
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Carlos Alves, Carlos A. M. Figueiredo, Jorge Sanjurjo-Sánchez and Ana C. Hernández
The present work reviews studies with information on the effects of water by itself on stones of the built environment both to assess the impact of this substance and to discuss possible implications for conservation. The analysis concerns empirical resu...
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Yulian Firmana Arifin, Eka Agustina, Fransius Andhi and Setianto Samingan Agus
This study aimed to explore the use of additives in soil?cement mixtures that have undergone a wetting-drying cycle. In total, two types of soil were used, granitic and lateritic, which are widely used in road base construction in the Katingan area, Cent...
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Weiyan Pan, Yunwu Xiong, Quanzhong Huang and Guanhua Huang
Reclaimed water is an important supplementary source for fresh water. Purification is necessary prior to utilization in order to minimize the pollution and human-health risk. A three-year experiment was carried out to study the removal of nitrogen and or...
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Weiyan Pan, Yunwu Xiong, Quanzhong Huang, Guanhua Huang
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Reclaimed water is an important supplementary source for fresh water. Purification is necessary prior to utilization in order to minimize the pollution and human-health risk. A three-year experiment was carried out to study the removal of nitrogen and or...
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Aleen Pertuz-Paz, Gaspar Monsalve, Juan Carlos Loaiza-Úsuga, José Humberto Caballero-Acosta, Laura Inés Agudelo-Vélez and Roy C. Sidle
Soil creep is common along the hillslopes of the tropical Andes of Colombia, where very heterogeneous soils develop on old debris flow deposits and are subjected to abundant rainfall with a bimodal annual regime. In particular, the western hillside of th...
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Xu Dong, Mingdong Wang, Minyuan Song and Ning Hou
The backfilling of lime soil in ultra-deep and ultra-narrow foundation trenches is a difficult construction link, and ordinary-cemented soil has drawbacks, including poor strength, impermeability, and frost resistance. To solve these problems, fly ash (F...
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Taymaz Esmaeili, Tetsuya Sumi, Sameh A. Kantoush, Yoji Kubota, Stefan Haun and Nils Rüther
The catchment of the Dashidaira reservoir located on the Kurobe River has high sediment yield. Because of the sufficient available amount of water in the catchment during flood events, the free-flow sediment flushing operation with full water-level drawd...
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Bianca Guevara, César Juárez, Gerardo Fajardo, Pedro Castro-Borges
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The present research intends to develop studies on reinforced concrete beams by applying controlled damage corrosion to cross-sectional reinforcements, thus finding relationships between different stirrups corrosion levels and shear strength due to diago...
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Arman Hatami Shirkouh, Farshad Meftahi, Ahmed Soliman, Stéphane Godbout and Joahnn Palacios
The increasing scarcity of virgin natural resources and the need for sustainable waste management in densely populated urban areas have heightened the importance of developing new recycling technologies. One promising approach involves recycling agricult...
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Nilo Cesar Consoli, Jordanna Chamon Vogt, João Paulo Sousa Silva, Helder Mansur Chaves, Hugo Carlos Scheuermann Filho, Eclesielter Batista Moreira and Andres Lotero
Failures of tailings dams, primarily due to liquefaction, have occurred in Brazil in recent years. These events have prompted the Brazilian government to place restrictions on the construction of new dams, as iron ore tailings deposited behind upstream d...
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Kun Zhang, Wei Yin, Xi Chen, Hui Li, Mingxing Cao and Shengxue Zhu
In this paper, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) is used as a new additive for porous vegetarian concrete (PVC) to improve its void structure and strength. The effect of the HPMC on the fluidity of the mortar was first investigated by a viscosity test...
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Sara Dias, António Tadeu, João Almeida, Pedro Humbert, Julieta António, Jorge de Brito and Pedro Pinhão
With a circular economy in the spotlight, wood waste has emerged as an important secondary raw material. Bearing this in mind, a comprehensive experimental study was carried out to evaluate the feasibility of using concrete compositions containing wood c...
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Shannon Nudds, Youyu Lu, Simon Higginson, Susan P. Haigh, Jean-Philippe Paquin, Mitchell O?Flaherty-Sproul, Stephanne Taylor, Hauke Blanken, Guillaume Marcotte, Gregory C. Smith, Natacha B. Bernier, Phillip MacAulay, Yongsheng Wu, Li Zhai, Xianmin Hu, Jérôme Chanut, Michael Dunphy, Frédéric Dupont, David Greenberg, Fraser J. M. Davidson and Fred Pageadd Show full author list remove Hide full author list
The oceanography sub-initiative of Canada?s Oceans Protection Plan was tasked to develop high-resolution nearshore ocean models for enhanced marine safety and emergency response, fitting into the multi-scale, multi-level nested operational ocean forecast...
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There are currently no standards regulating water management for mass timber elements during construction, little knowledge of impacts of moisture exposure (wetting and drying performance, dimensional stability, checking), and few precedents serving as g...
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Wenkui Bai, Xiling Gu, Shenlin Li, Yihan Tang, Yanhu He, Xihui Gu and Xiaoyan Bai
Reliability and accuracy of soil moisture datasets are essential for understanding changes in regional climate such as precipitation and temperature. Soil moisture datasets from the Essential Climate Variable (ECV), the Coupled Model Intercomparison Proj...
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Xixi Wang
Evaporation from bare sandy soils is the core component of the hydrologic cycle in arid environments, where vertical water movement dominates. Although extensive measurement and modeling studies have been conducted and reported in existing literature, th...
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