The effect of microfabric on the mechanical behaviour of clays has been explored previously based on the response of dispersed and flocculated microfabrics only. However, the natural clays often have the geometric arrangement ...

The recently proposed, KAZE image feature detection and description algorithm (Alcantarilla et al. in Proceedings of the British machine vision conference. LNCS, vol 7577, no 6, pp 13.1–13.11, 2013) offers significantly ...

Fly ash is a by-product of coal combustion from thermal power plant. It comprises of hollow spherical silt size particles with low specific gravity. The increased use of fly ash in highway/railway embankment construction ...

Mica particles are flaky and layered in nature with relatively low hardness as compared to quartz particles. Micaceous soil with more than 10% mica is generally not recommended for pavements due to low compactability and ...

Cyclic behavior of cohesionless soils at cyclic strains and frequencies resembling strong ground motion is highly non-linear. Recent developments in numerical analysis tools for the non-linear dynamic response of soils ...

The compactability and compressibility behavior of a soil mass through removal of air or water is majorly dependent on soil-structure, type and rate of loading conditions. The uniqueness of micaceous sand arises from the ...