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  1. valfer

    expansive clays

    roso, I would say that a simple expansion test is probably not enough to characterize your soil in regard with your topic. I suppose you ask the sub-base to level the global value of expansion and to limit differential displacements. The first point is obtained because you increase the value of...
  2. valfer

    Soils containing organic matter

    French administration is creating a database on the use of unusual material in road engineering. A part of this database concerns natural materials containing organic matter, and we would like to know about the practice in other countries with such materials. According a widely use guideline in...
  3. valfer

    Consolidation Quiz

    Focht3 and BigH, Thanks for your answers. I had never been on the "Eartwork and grading engineering" forum but I'm going to try my question again over there. My thread here was thread274-42324.
  4. valfer

    Minimum Unit Weights in Fills

    Big H, I can suggest an explanation for this specification on MDD : Everyone here certainly observed the influence of fine proportions, plasticity index and maximum size of particles on the maximum density (modified or standard Proctor). I personaly think that the clay content and its...
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    Consolidation Quiz

    Long horn2, I'm very interested in your question as it is the red line of my research work. Though many researchs have been done on this wide subject, you should find interesting points in particular in the proceedings of a conference held in 1978, called "Clay fills" (Proceedings of...
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    Use of natural soils containing organic matter

    French administration is creating a database on the use of unusual material in road engineering. A part of this database concerns natural materials containing organic matter, and we would like to know about the practice in other countries with such materials. According a widely use guideline in...

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