Hello everyone, I'd like to ask you regarding Sikament LN, which known as water reducer and will accelerate the hardening process of the concrete. I'm doing a research where I need to use 2% of Sikament LN to add to the concrete admixture. While making the admixture, I got some problems which...
Is it suitable if we use peat soil as landfill?
I run a test of the fully saturated and compacted peat soil's permeability and I got 10^-9 m/s which meet the requirement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Is it really safe to use peat instead of clay? If not why? Thank you so...
So I'm planning to do a saturation on a samples using hydraulic consolidation test (rowe cell) and I'm following the procedures from BS 1377 Part 6 1990, which actually kind of confusing me. They also have this form to be filled when we're doing the saturation test.
If any of you happen to know...
Hello everyone,
I wonder if any of you could give me some references of Rowe Cell Test textbooks or journals.
I find it difficult to find the literature or the procedure about how to use it.
Thank you so much!
Hello everyone, I'm doing some test for landfill design for my research.
I have some specimens that need to be tested, and all of the specimens are a mixed soil between four type of soils, which are organic/peat soil(in USDA classification it classified as loamy sand), kaolin (USDA classified...
How many formulas that exist to find the hydraulic conductivity value in falling head test? Especially if we do the permeability test on recompacted soil.
Thank you.
Hello. So I'm about to do a several tests for the peat soils and one of them is atterberg limits. So I wondering should we dry the soil overnight in the oven before we do the test or just do the test without drying it? Is there any special treatment or method we should do when we're doing the...
What kind of clay work the best to protect the groundwater from leachate? I know that we need a hydraulic conductivity less than 10^-9 to do that....but I read somewhere that bentonite and kaolinite don't have a low hydraulic conductivity like what we need to do the lining. I need explanation...
So does anyone have a table about values of K used in the equation for calculating the diameter of particles in hydrometer analysis that has Gs (soil specific gravity) lower than 2. All I can found the table start from 2.45. But my Gs is around 1.8 so I need a table that lower than 2.45
Can...
So I tested the water content of kaolinite clay yesterday. The clay we tested was a disturbed clay, so it has been going through a lot of weather changea and other condition. I tested it by following the procedure we usually use at the laboratory and put the clay in the oven for 24 hours in 110...
Seriously, I hope I'm in a wrong thread, and I really need a quick answers here, hopefully you guys can help me on here. So what are the advantages & disadvantages if we pouring the concrete beam-slabs monolithic with concrete colomn? Like we pour the concrete beam-slab right after we done...
