Microwear, the quantification of microscopic scratches and pits on the occlusal surfaces of tooth enamel, is commonly used as a paleodietary proxy. For ungulates (hoofed mammals), scratch-dominant microwear distinguishes modern grazers from browsers, presumably as a result of abrasion from grass phytoliths (biogenic silica). However, it is also likely that exogenous grit (i.e. soil, dust) is a ...

this research was performed to determine the efficiency effect of sedimentary environment of kerman city area on soil structure bycomparing natural and reconstituted consolidation curves. in this regard, four different criteria such as sensitivity strength, stresssensitivity, schmertman criteria and the result of the uniaxial compression test were used. the base of these criteria is to compare ...

different additives have been considered to improve stabilization of the engineering properties of fine-grained soil. the present study investigated the effect of the addition of sewage sludge ash on the compressive strength of clay soil at optimum moisture content and under saturated conditions. the four treatments tested were the addition of 0%, 5%, 10% and 15% sewage sludge ash to clayey soi...

This study presents a robust evolutionary computational technique, called multi-expression programming (MEP), to derive a highly nonlinear model for the prediction of compression index of fine-grained soils. The proposed model relates the soil compression index to its liquid limit, plastic limit and void ratio. The experimental database used for developing the models was established upon 108 co...

High-frequency electromagnetic (HF-EM) measurement techniques, e.g. dielectric spectroscopy, give inside into soil physical properties which are related to soil/water interactions such as the soil water characteristics. The open-ended coaxial line technique offers a non destructive determination of dielectric spectra of fine grained soil. In this study, a commercially available Agilent high tem...

The ability to achieve meaningful decreases in sediment loads to reservoirs requires a determination of the relative importance of sediment sources within the contributing basins. In an investigation of sources of fine-grained sediment (clay and silt) within the Perry Lake Basin in northeast Kansas, representative samples of channel-bank sources, surface-soil sources (cropland and grassland), a...

Engineers often want to estimate profiles of soil permeability (hydraulic conductivity) as part of the site characterization process. Several methods have been proposed to estimate the coefficient of permeability (k) using CPT results. These methods are generally based on two approaches: (1) estimated soil type and (2) rate of dissipation during a CPTu dissipation test. This paper presents upda...

Compressibility of a soil mass is its susceptibility to decrease in volume under pressure and is indicated by soil characteristics like coefficient of compressibility, compression index and coefficient of consolidation. However, the determination of soil compressibility characteristics in the labs is a cumbersome and time consuming process, especially in the case of fine grained soils. In the p...