This work presents an experimental study realized at the materials laboratory of the University of M’sila. It consists to vary the percentage of the pozzolanic admixture (waste bricks) in cement by the substitution method (partial replacement of the clinker by the calcined clay). The characteristics of cement at anhydrous state and the hydrated state (chemical composition, specific weight and f...

tirgan formation with lower cretaceous age (barremian-aptian) in the kopet-dagh basin consists of carbonate and siliciclastic rocks (calcareous shale and sandstone) which conformably lay between siliciclastic rocks of shurijeh formation below, and marly sarcheshmeh formation at the top. in this study, tirgan formation in two stratigraphic sections of abgarm (77 m in thickness) and sirzar (46 m ...

Isolated patches of white clay occurring in the terminal moraine of Long Island, Staten fsland, and southern New Jersey have been mentioned in a number of geologic descriptions. Such an occurrence was recently encountered during excavation for a building site and samples were submitted to the mineralogical laboratory of Columbia University for identification by Messrs. Schoonmaker and Kirkman. ...

Digital Clay is a novel 3D computer input and output device for surface shape and haptic effects. The device consists of arrays of fluidically actuated cells under the control of valves connected to two pressure reservoirs in a manner ultimately suitable to an implementation in MEMS technology. At the current stage, it is very difficult to implement a tiny position sensor into each tiny cell. T...

This paper presents an experimental program dealing with the shear strengthening with FRP systems of URM walls built with concrete and clay units. Ten concrete and five clay masonry panels, strengthened with FRP composites in the form of laminates and rods, and stainless steel, were loaded along the wall diagonal to observe their shear performance. The dimension of the concrete masonry panels w...

The Langmuir-Schaefer (LS) method has been investigated as a means to control the structure of hybrid organoclay thin films consisting of montmorillonite and dimethyldioctadecylammonium (DODA) cations. We observed a significant modification of the compression isotherms as a function of clay mineral concentration in the subphase, implying clay interaction with the alkylammonium monolayer. For a ...

A future development site of a housing estate, an abandoned-brick yard with clayey slopes was studied in details to assess slope stability and to calculate the factor of safety. The Oligocene clay, the former raw material, is divided into two different geotechnical units in the clay pit. The lower one consists of grey impermeable clays while the upper unit is characterised by yellowish weathere...

holocene in southwest khuzestan is represented by a fluvio-tidal succession termed thebahmanshir series which consists of two clayey layers separated by silty sand to silt beds. this paperdescribes the geotechnical properties of the clayey layers that have wide exposure in the lowlands of thepersian gulf coast. studied layers are generally clay sized and consist of a lesser percentage of clay m...