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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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Akhmad Adi Sulianto, Ilham Putra Adiyaksa, Yusuf Wibisono, Elena Khan, Aleksei Ivanov, Aleksandr Drannikov, Kadir Ozaltin and Antonio Di Martino
Here, we describe and assess a method for reusing specific food waste to make hydrogels, which can be employed to improve the efficacy of agrochemicals and water. It represents an approach for tackling current challenges, such as food waste, water manage...
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Muhammad Rehan Hakro, Aneel Kumar, Zaheer Almani, Mujahid Ali, Fahid Aslam, Roman Fediuk, Sergey Klyuev, Alexander Klyuev and Linar Sabitov
Numerical modelling can simulate the interaction between structural elements and the soil continuum in a piled-raft foundation. The present work utilized a two-dimensional finite element Plaxis 2D software to investigate the settlement, swelling, and str...
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Souhila Rehab Bekkouche, Mohammed Benzerara, Umar Zada, Ghulam Muhammad and Zulfiqar Ali
Volume change of expansive soils is a challenging issue, which affects various engineering structures all over the world. Consequently, we need environmentally-friendly and cost-effective soil stabilizers to address the challenges related to expansive so...
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Bogdan-Catalin Serban, Cornel Cobianu, Octavian Buiu, Marius Bumbac, Niculae Dumbravescu, Viorel Avramescu, Cristina Mihaela Nicolescu, Mihai Brezeanu, Cristiana Radulescu, Gabriel Craciun, Cosmin Romanitan and Florin Comanescu
We report the relative humidity (RH) sensing response of a resistive sensor, employing sensing layers, based on a quaternary organic?inorganic hybrid nanocomposite comprising oxidized carbon nanohorns (CNHox), graphene oxide (GO), tin dioxide, and polyvi...
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Marin Micutz, Rodica Mihaela Lungu, Viorel Circu, Monica Ilis and Teodora Staicu
Hydrogels containing both carboxyl and hydroxyl functional groups have been prepared by ?-irradiation of either aqueous solutions of acrylic acid (AA) and mixtures of AA and 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) in different ratios, or aqueous solutions of ...
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Sheikh Ali Ahmed, Stergios Adamopoulos, Junqiu Li and Janka Kovacikova
Change of relative humidity (RH) in surrounding environment can greatly affect the physical and mechanical properties of wood-based panels. Commercially produced acetylated medium density fiberboard (MDF), Medite Tricoya®, was used in this study to predi...
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Jianbo She, Zheng Lu, Hailin Yao, Ran Fang and Shaohua Xian
The swelling properties of expansive soil at different depths were investigated by the laboratory model test. It was experimentally found that the swelling deformation of different expansive soil layers was obviously different under unidirectional seepag...
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Xin Cai, Zilong Zhou, Kewei Liu, Xueming Du and Haizhi Zang
The presence of water strongly affects rock properties and would be related to a series of geological disasters. To understand water saturation effects on the mechanical behavior of different rock types and interpret the underlying mechanisms of differen...
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Julius Toeri and Marie-Pierre Laborie
The thermal and swelling properties of a series of azacrown ether-crosslinked chitosans prepared with varying molar amounts of N,N-diallyl-7,13-diaza-1,7,10,16-tetraoxa-dibenzo-18-crown-6 (molar equivalents ranging from 0, 0.125, 0.167, 0.25 and 0.5) fil...
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