Compaction characteristic of the surface layer asphalt mixture (13-type gradation mixture) was studied using Superpave gyratory compactor (SGC) simulative compaction tests. Based on analysis of densification curve of gyratory compaction, influence rules of the contents of mineral aggregates of all sizes and asphalt on compaction characteristic of asphalt mixtures were obtained. SGC Tests show t...

Triaxial experiments show that samples of fault gouge deform distinctly differently than those from the adjacent fault damage zone (e.g., Chester and Logan, 1986). Rock samples in the damage zone follow a characteristic elastic-brittle behavior, whereas fault gouge readily compacts and deforms in a more ductile manner. In order to explain the apparent weakness of large plate bounding faults suc...

The cold compaction of an aggregate of powder is treated from the viewpoint of crystal plasticity theory. The contacts between particles are treated as compaction planes which yield under both normal and shear straining. The hardening of each plane represents both geometric and material hardening at the contacts between particles; the macroscopic tangent stiffness can be written in terms of the...

Overtopping, internal erosion, and piping are the main causes of accidents and failures of embankments for dams, lagoons, and levees. A key parameter in the failure of these structures is the erodibility of the soil materials used in construction of the embankments. The soil materials are typically constructed based on compaction specifications. The jet erosion test (JET) has been developed to ...

We cover and discuss techniques that are designed for compaction of shape representations or shape configurations. The goal of compaction is to reduce storage space, a fundamental problem in many application domains. We consider compaction both at the representation level (i.e., digital storage) and in physical domains (i.e., physical storage). Shape representation compaction focuses on reducin...

Abstract: Thee transform coding is a major block in any compression technique. Transform coding helps in decorrelating the input data and for energy compaction which are required to implement compression. DCT is standard transform used in JPEG image compression standard and DWT is used in JPEG2000image compression standard. The DHT is a transform which provides flexibility in terms of hardware ...

response to soil compaction associated with soil and crop type, and soil wetness at the time of load application and weather in Central and Eastern Europe are reviewed. The effects of soil compaction on the morphological and anatomical modifications of the roots were shown. The influence of soil compaction on plasticity in root growth and functioning in relation to structural discontinuity is d...

withdrawal of oil and gas from reservoirs causes a decrease in pore pressure and an increase in effective stress which results to a reservoir compaction. reservoir compaction will result in surface subsidence through the elastic response of the subsurface. usually in order to determine the subsidence above a hydrocarbon field, the reservoir compaction must be first calculated and then the effec...

Diagenetic theory, as it is often stated, is formally incomplete in the sense that it contains more dependent variables than the number of equations in the theory. Heretofore, this situation has been resolved ordinarily by introducing an empirical equation for porosity, , or equivalently the solid volume fraction, s 1 , as a function of depth. In contrast, the theory of compaction, that is comb...