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Stefania Bilardi, Domenico Ielo and Nicola Moraci
Predictive models able to provide a reliable estimate of hydraulic conductivity can be useful in various geotechnical applications. Since most of the existing predictive methods for saturated hydraulic conductivity estimation are valid only for a limited...
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Elena Bragar, Yakov Pronozin, Askar Zhussupbekov, Alexander Gerber, Assel Sarsembayeva, Tymarkul Muzdybayeva and Ulbossyn Zhangabilkyzy Sarabekova
Destructuring settlements due to frost heave during the structures? exploitation are often not taken into account at the designing stage, although they are indirectly related to the bearing capacity of the soils. The objective of this research was analyz...
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Gang Xu, Xianhua Chen, Xing Cai, Yunhong Yu and Jun Yang
This paper aims to characterize the three-dimensional (3D) internal structure evolution of asphalt mixtures under freeze?thaw cycles. Asphalt mixtures with three levels of design void content (3%, 5%, and 7%) were prepared in the laboratory. Subsequently...
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Hui Zhang, Peiwei Gao, Zhixiang Zhang, Youqiang Pan and Weiguang Zhang
Through laboratory testing, this research studied the connection between air-void structures of hardened concrete and fresh concrete and discussed the effects of the air-void structure on the salt-frost durability of the concrete. The results demonstrate...
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Marek Kovác and Alena Sicáková
Pervious concrete is considered to be an advanced pavement material in terms of the environmental benefits arising from its basic feature?high water-permeability. This paper presents the results of experimental work that is aimed at testing technically i...
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Jaewon Jang, Maydison, Yeonjun Kim, Zhiqiang Han and Daekyun Oh
Defects such as voids in composite materials often degrade the mechanical properties of laminates. Even if these materials are manufactured based on the design requirements, there is a possibility of instability occurring in these composite structures. I...
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Gabriela Hammes and Liseane Padilha Thives
One alternative measure to minimise the stormwater runoff volume and its pollutants and reduce impervious areas is to use permeable pavement. However, due to weak mechanical performance under heavy-load traffic related to fatigue resistance, porous mixtu...
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Jiaqi Chen, Xingzao Chen, Hancheng Dan and Lanchun Zhang
Pavement temperature field affects pavement service life and the thermal environment the near road surface; thus, is important for sustainable pavement design. This paper developed a combined prediction method for the thermal conductivity of asphalt conc...
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Lisha Zhang, Shimin Zhang, Xin Liu and Yinsuo Sun
Due to the impact of natural and artificial influence, such as waves, tides, and artificial dewatering, the small-strain shear modulus of soils may vary with the water content of soil, causing deformation of excavations and other earth structures. The pr...
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Delwyn G. Fredlund and Murray D. Fredlund
The application of unsaturated soil mechanics in routine geotechnical engineering applications requires the determination of unsaturated soil properties. Unfortunately, the cost of direct measurement of unsaturated soil properties goes beyond the financi...
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Beasman L.E.,McCuen R.H.
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Chord length measurements are used to estimate the volumetric distribution of air voids within hardened concrete samples. The accuracy of the Linear-Traverse method is questionable because chord lengths do not directly represent the actual volumes of the...
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Freddy Richard Apaza, Víctoriano Fernández Vázquez, Santiago Expósito Paje, Federico Gulisano, Valerio Gagliardi, Leticia Saiz Rodríguez and Juan Gallego Medina
In the last decade, various asphalt paving materials have undergone investigation for sound attenuation purposes. This research aims to delve into the innovative design of sustainable road pavements by examining sound absorption in rubber-modified asphal...
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Donggeun Kim and Younghwan Son
Thresholding is a digital image analysis method used to distinguish objects from the background in images and it is mainly used for void and density analysis in soil. It is important to select an appropriate thresholding method because the accuracy of vo...
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Yazeed S. Jweihan, Mazen J. Al-Kheetan and Musab Rabi
Moisture susceptibility is a complex phenomenon that induces various distresses in asphalt pavements and can be assessed by the Retained Stability Index (RSI). This study proposes a robust model to predict the RSI using a hybrid machine learning techniqu...
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Yanli Tao, Jianfeng Zhu, Jian Zhou, Zeyi Yu and Jia Lu
The electro-osmosis-combined-preloading method is considered very promising in soft soil improvement, while the uncertainty in the function mechanism has hindered its practical application. To explore the mechanism of the combined method, experiments con...
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Belal Tewfik,Ghembaza Moulay Smaine,Bellia Zoheir
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The evaluation of unsaturated soils' fundamental properties is ensured by the characteristic water retention curve for a wide range of soil suction values. However, a minimal number of research works have focused on studying the water retention propertie...
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Shuaicheng Guo, Qingli Dai, Xiao Sun, Ye Sun and Zhen Liu
Entrained air voids can improve the freeze-thaw durability of concrete, and also affect its mechanical and transport properties. Therefore, it is important to measure the air void structure and understand its influence on concrete performance for quality...
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Jacek Golaszewski, Malgorzata Golaszewska and Grzegorz Cygan
Freeze?thaw resistance is a significant issue in the durability of concrete; however, it is not widely discussed in the context of limestone addition to concrete. The present study aims to compare the effect of the addition of different types of limeston...
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Juanjuan Zhu, Joby B. Boxall, Andrew F. Hills, Rob S. Dwyer-Joyce, Sean R. Anderson and Richard P. Collins
The ability to detect early signs of failure in buried pipe infrastructure is necessary to facilitate the continued use of ageing infrastructure for delivery of society?s essential services and move beyond disruptive and expensive reactive maintenance an...
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Yifan Liu, Qigang Zhu, Feng Cao, Junke Chen and Gang Lu
Semantic segmentation has been widely used in the basic task of extracting information from images. Despite this progress, there are still two challenges: (1) it is difficult for a single-size receptive field to acquire sufficiently strong representation...
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