expansive soils are of the kind the volume of which will be changed to extremes by being exposed to varying conditions of moisture. this volume change is a serious menace to structures built on these types of soils. throughout the present research the potential of volume change in these soils was investigated when exposed to the phenomenon of wetting and drying. for the purpose, samples of a st...

Although the Na(+)/K(+) pump is one of the key mechanisms responsible for maintaining cell volume, we have observed experimentally that cell volume remained almost constant during 90 min exposure of guinea pig ventricular myocytes to ouabain. Simulation of this finding using a comprehensive cardiac cell model (Kyoto model incorporating Cl(-) and water fluxes) predicted roles for the plasma memb...

Swelling soil leads to many types of constructional damages, deformations, and failures in the constructions’ roads, shoulders, foundations. Depending on amount swell, they can be insignificant, moderate, or massive. This paper presents a method for swelling stabilization by adding rice husk powder (RHP) variable percentages 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 weight dry soil. The properties were investigated...

Data acquired from the hyperspectral airborne sensor DAIS-7915 over Antequera in southern Spain was processed to yield a quantitative soil swelling potential map based on three physicochemical soil properties currently used in engineering as measures of soil swelling namely cation exchange capacity (CEC), coefficient of linear extensibility (COLE), and Saturated moisture content (SP). The metho...