Weak soil at construction sites necessitates ground improvement. Chemical stabilization is typically carried out using either lime or cement. The primary objective of this study was to assess the strength and durability lime-stabilized soils modified with nano-alumina (NA). This adopted scientifically established initial consumption (ICL) content for stabilization. In addition, added in varying...

The wetting of a surface by liquid is crucial part many natural and industrial processes. Despite numerous existing studies, some elements wetting-drying such as contact angle variation during flow, are still poorly understood, yet it piece information needed for modeling fluid displacements in capillary-dominated flows. In the context multi-phase flow porous media, scarcity direct measurements...

Measurements are presented of the state of wetting of a binary liquid mixture on heavily silylated glass, which are believed to probe a new region of the wetting phase diagram. We find unusual temperature dependence and the first experimental evidence of a possible "partial drying" transition recently predicted by Ebner and Saam for the case of strong short-range substrate-liquid forces opposed...

Soluble salts are compounds found inside ornamental rocks and building stones exposed to atmospheric agents in environments rich alkaline metal ions, such as sodium potassium. The damage induced by their crystallization those materials, used build monuments architectural structures of great importance, is an unsolved problem. Sodium sulfate one the most common harmful salt these constructions. ...

in order to evaluate the possibility and compare different irrigation methods in ricecultivation, an experiment was conducted in factorial based randomized complete blockdesign at rice research institute of iran, mazandaran (amol), during 2011. treatments weredifferent irrigation regimes including alternate wet and drying (awd), semi-dry cultivation(sdc), combining shallow water depth with wett...

• Soil hydrologic parameters including field saturation, field capacity, initiation of plant water stress and plant extraction limits can be reliably determined from electronic soil moisture sensor records. • Soil profile wetting and drying occurs along a regular continuum of soil moisture following the advance of the wetting from to the effective base of the soil profile. • Frozen soil conditi...