The general characteristics of granular soils reinforced with fibres have been reported in previous studies and have shown that fibre inclusion provides an increase in material strength and ductility and that the composite behaviour is governed by fibre content, as well as the mechanical and geometrical properties of the fibre. The present work presents...
View ArticleProbabilistic and deterministic stability analyses of the progress of a large mine pit excavation in Brazil are presented herein. A simple method of reliability analysis for quantifying the probability of failure of slopes has been considered and its advantages and limitations are briefly discussed. The variance of the factor of safety is computed for s...
View ArticleThis paper addresses the effect of cadmium incubation time on the electroosmotic decontamination of three residual soils from the Zona da Mata Norte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. The laboratory testing program included the
following: (i) materials, encompassing a lateritic clayey silty sand (soil 1), a non-lateritic claye...
Lateritic soils are widely spread in the Brazilian territory and they have been used as subgrade of pavement layers. Specifically, the Red-yellow latosols are usually clayey soils and are characterized as low bearing capacity materials for flexible pavement layers. As a conventional solution, soil stabilization with hydrated lime or Portland cement has ...
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