The increase in the number of discarded tires every year is becoming a major issue all over world. Tires stockpiles and landfills have become critical as they are considered fertile environment for breeding rats insects, real fire hazard that may take up to months extinguish occupy valuable, large area land. One safest effective ways recycling use them backfilling material, among different usag...

This technical note describes a set of direct simple shear (DSS) tests that characterise the evolving geotechnical properties soft soil, through loading history represents episodic load...

This paper explores the effect of particle breakage on mechanical behavior coarse sand through 3D Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations direct shear tests (DST). The objective is to gain insights into macro- and micro-mechanical behaviors crushable sand, with a particular focus stress–strain relationship, volumetric deformation, evolution grain crushing. involve comparison between non-crush...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to test the null hypothesis that different surface conditioning (etch and rinse and self-etch) and curing techniques (light cure/dual cure) had no effect on the shear bond strength of direct and indirect composite inlays. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 112 extracted human molar teeth were horizontally sectioned and randomly divided into two groups accordi...