Wastewaters from the textile industry are hazardous effluents containing toxic complex
components that without appropriate treatment severely impact the environment; causing …

(Department of Geotechnique, Nanjing H ydraulic Research Institute, Nanjing, 210024)
Abstract This paper is a summary of some research w orks on soft soils conducted in …

Following the purchase by the Science and Engineering Research Council of a soft clay test
site at Bothkennar in Scotland, work has been carried out to provide data characterizing the …

A soil classification system is used to group soils according to shared qualities or
characteristics based on simple cost-effective tests. The most common soil classification …

In order to clarify the micro‐mechanics of clay during compression, the behavior of clay
subjected to one‐dimensional compression is investigated at the particle scale using …

Design practice in offshore geotechnical engineering has grown out of onshore practice, but
the two application areas have tended to diverge over the last thirty years, driven partly by …

Now in its fifth edition, this classic textbook continues to offer a well-tailored resource for
beginning graduate students in geotechnical engineering. Further developing the basic …

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Mudstone is the most abundant sedimentary rock and variously acts as sources, seals, and
shale gas reservoirs in petroleum systems. Many important physicochemical properties of …

This paper examines the relationship between the microstructure and engineering
properties of cement-treated marine clay. The microstructure was investigated using x-ray …