In this work, an attempt was made to study the influence of jute fibre reinforcement with the
help of three case studies. The first case study described laboratory model testing and …

The study quantified laboratory geotechnical variability by analyzing compacted alluvial fine-
grained soils commonly used to backfill exhausted quarries in Central Italy. Repeating the …

Salt basins often exhibit a shelf/slope region of extension and a deeper domain of
contraction. The up‐slope normal faults in such salt tectonics systems are often associated …

Abstract Micro-Raman (μ-Raman) spectroscopy has been used, as a preliminary and non-
destructive technique, in order to investigate the mineralogical composition and to define the …

To date, phosphate surface mining suffers from lack of reliable emission factors. Due to
complete absence of data to derive emissions factors, we developed a methodology for …

Tabriz is a large Iranian city and the capital of the East Azerbaijan province. The bed rock of
this city is mainly consisted of marl layers. Marl layers have some outcrops in the northern …

The residual soils have a physical-mechanical behavior that reflects their formation process.
In the present work, a residual soil derived from Medellín Dunite was characterized …

To expand and maintain the Moroccan road network, millions of tonnes of aggregates from
natural resources are extracted annually. This has a major impact on the environment and …

The supply of water to populations is a basic need that has been threatened more frequently
in recent years due to climate change, which renders seeking other sources of water …

Only few data are available concerning the effect of the four main clay minerals, kaolinite (K),
illite (I), montmorillonite (M) and chlorite (C), on the mechanical properties of clayey soils …