An initial application of CPT results is to evaluate soil type and soil stratigraphy. One of the more common CPT-based methods to estimate soil type is the chart suggested by Robertson et al (1986) based on cone resistance, qc and friction ratio, Rf. Although newer charts have been developed based on normalized parameters, the simple chart based on qc and Rf is still popular because it is easy ...

The objective of this work was to determine a design for riparian protection infrastructure using gabions in the Peruvian jungle. methodology used an applied, quantitative type, sample is area between kilometers 1,060 and 1,660 Chaupimayo creek, Madre de Dios, Peru. conclusionswere that soil on surface clayey sand (SC) depth silty gravel (GM), micro-basin has 0,365 km2, perimeter 3,03 km. Likew...

The survival of Escherichia coli in bottom sediment (Lake Onalaska, navigation pool no. 7, Mississippi River) was studied by using in situ dialysis culture of sterile (autoclaved) and unsterile sediment samples. Bags made from dialysis tubing were filled with either course sand sediment (28.8% fine) or organic, silty clay sediment (77.2% fine) and placed at the sediment-water interface. Bags re...

A unified critical state model has been developed for both clean sand and silty using the modified Cam-clay (MCC). The main feature of proposed is a new line equation in e-ln(p) plane that capable handling straight curved test results. With this feature, error calculating plastic volumetric strain is, theory, eliminated. Another crucial transformed stress tensor based on SMP (spatially mobilize...

this paper presents a model for prediction of the mechanical behavior of sand-gravel mixtures using generalized plasticity and critical state concepts. proposed model is based on the difference between critical state lines of sand and sand-gravel mixture in e-lnp' plane. a generalized plasticity model is considered as the base model for sandy soil. its state parameter, dilation rate and ha...

The aim of poplar plantations is to achieve high biomass production over a short rotation period. This requires low mortality and fast development of the transplants. The experiment described in this paper examines methods aimed at enhancing survival and development of Populus trichocarpa plants by application of fertilizers, a hydrogel or a combination of both to dormant cuttings just before p...

Rivers sourced in the Himalayan mountain range carry some of the largest sediment loads on the planet, yet coarse gravel in these rivers vanishes within approximately 10-40 kilometres on entering the Ganga Plain (the part of the North Indian River Plain containing the Ganges River). Understanding the fate of gravel is important for forecasting the response of rivers to large influxes of sedimen...

Stratification and estimated paleoflow conditions for valley-fill deposits suggest that Ogallala Group streams in western Nebraska were similar to modem streams of south-central Alberta. Ogallala stratification includes medium-scale (0.5 to 2. O m thick) trough crossbedded sand and gravel, tabular indistinctly horizontally bedded and imbricated gravel, and horizontally bedded sand and pebbly sa...

Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salad redds were exanuned in t.he upperSusqueherma River during November of 1992 and 1993 at Cooperstown, W{, In 1993, ten redds were composed of 10% boulder, 12% cobble, 52% pebble, 18% gravel and 8% sand. Five redds in 1992 had a composition of 42% cobble, 36% gravel and 10% sand. Fish were sampled with a fine rnesh drift net to provide ages, lengths, weights and sex. A...

A textural classification of sediments collected in input channels, shallow lagoon beds and navigation channels of the Lagoon of Venice is presented. Some variables describing both the hydrodynamics and the transport time scales of the Lagoon are compared with bottom sediment distribution inside the basin. A high correlation between residence time (REST) and the silt fraction (4-31 μm) was only...