Safe disposal of nuclear waste is an important environmental challenge. Several countries are investigating deep geological disposal as a long-term solution for their high-level waste. In Belgium, the Oligocene Boom Clay is the reference host formation for research purposes and for the safety and feasibility assessment of the deep disposal of high-level and/or long-lived radioactive waste. The ...

The stabilisation of expansive clay subgrades using recycled glass (RG) was proposed, as a sustainable ground improvement technique. Previous studies mainly focused on RG powder with contents up to 10%, while the current study utilised sand-size particles and 40% content. Physical properties, compressibility, strength characteristics, long-term climatic effects volumetric behaviour stabilised w...

Configuration design deals with the composition of artifacts from a predefined catalog of components over a wide variety of application domains (architecture, telecommunications systems, civil engineering, control software, etc.). Recent years have seen various attempts to work towards a high-level, formal representation of configuration problems with the goal of providing a stable platform on ...

Clay soil is a that causes lot of problems, has low permeability and difficult to handle in the field. The grains are very fine composed minerals can be affected by water. If water content high this expands its strength decreases significantly damage structure above it. To overcome problem, researchers tried use brick waste as mixing material, because material commonly found composition bricks ...

Bio-inspired Laponite (clay)-liquid crystal (LC) polymer composite materials with high clay fractions (>80%) and a high level of orientation of the clay platelets, i.e. with structural features similar to the ones found in natural nacre, have been shown to exhibit a promising behavior in the context of reduced oxygen transmission. Key characteristics of these bio-inspired composite materials ar...