... were then investigated at the microscale using mercury intrusion porosimetry and scanning electron microscopy. The combination of mechanical and microscopy tests allowed further insight into the relationship between porosity and CSSM . The pore size distributions at the points selected are monomodal...

... into the microscopic mechanisms of EICP and advances the application of EICP in fracture repair. 24 05 2023 06 10 2023 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 calcium carbonate EICP hydrodynamic feedback microscopy pressure evolution In recent years, biomineralisation has increasingly...

... closely related to their mother particles. 20 10 2022 30 05 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2024 in situ X-ray micro-tomography laboratory tests microscopy particle breakage particle crushing/crushability particle shape particle tracking particle-scale...

..., rotation of the particle is prevented in every plane by an adhesive (ethyl cyanoacrylate), to fix the orientation of the particle contact point with respect to the structural interface plate. Microscopy analysis of the particle during shearing shows that, under the applied loads, no detectable net movement...

... as follows: (a) a mixture of BS and urea solution; (b) a mixture of BS and calcium chloride solution; and (c) a solution containing only BS. © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 bacterial density calcium carbonate MICP microscopy mineral phase In this study, the aim is to develop...

... and numerical simulations. 01 01 2024 14 06 2024 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 concentrations effect distribution characteristics EICP microscopy permeability Recently, biomineralisation technology has gradually gained increasing attention from geotechnical engineers...

... highlighting why larger grain sizes influence stiffness values. 7 10 2020 24 06 2022 © 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 grain size granular materials micromechanics microscopy soil dynamics stiffness where A is a material constant that depends on soil type; p...

...Yanhao Zheng; Béatrice A. Baudet; Pierre Delage; Jean-Michel Pereira; Peter Sammonds The pore size, shape and orientation of an illite-dominant clay were mapped during one-dimensional compression, using mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP), scanning electron microscopy and gas adsorption. The total...

... compaction fabric/structure of soils microscopy partial saturation silts Figure 2 presents the Proctor compaction curves of soils with different soil salinities, which were determined from a standard Proctor compaction test (Afnor, 1999). The maximum dry density of soil without salt (r′ = 0...

.... compressibility ground improvement microscopy soil stabilisation stiffness 08 05 2020 17 06 2021 © 2021 Thomas Telford Ltd 2021 Cylindrical disc samples with dimensions of 70 mm dia. and 19 mm high and cylindrical samples of 100 mm dia. and 200 mm long were prepared...

... particle resembles more the original scanned particle. 01 05 2019 17 12 2019 © 2020 Thomas Telford Ltd 2020 fractals microscopy sands The morphology of soil grains is conventionally described at different characteristic scales, such as particle shape and surface texture...

... 11 2018 22 06 2020 © 2020 Thomas Telford Ltd 2020 laboratory tests microscopy particle crushing/crushability particle-scale behaviour sands Granular materials play a major role in disparate fields of technology (Jaeger & Nagel, 1996 ; Guimaraes et al., 2007...

..., are considered macro pores (or inter-particle pores) and these are assumed to form the free pathways for long-range water transport (see Fig. 1). chemical properties clays microscopy permeability radioactive waste disposal water flow Despite significant efforts in the last few decades...

... for these variations. The particle-scale properties of calcium carbonate crystals in MICP-treated soils, such as shape, size, amount and distribution, have been extensively studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The shapes of calcium carbonate crystals were found to be either spherical or prismatic, which...

... √ 1940 Initial void 60·2 0·99 1·79 1·8 √ Top 50·1 1·16 1·39 2·9 √ Middle 49·0 1·17 1·37 3·2 √ Bottom 48·2 1·19 1·34 3·7 √ 10 11 2017 31 07 2018 © 2018 Thomas Telford Ltd 2018 compaction expansive soils fabric/structure of soils microscopy...

... al., 2011). 21 09 2016 21 09 2017 © 2017 Thomas Telford Ltd 2017 chemical properties clays discrete-element modelling fabric/structure of soils microscopy particle-scale behaviour The mechanical response of geomaterials is controlled by the interactions between...

... details to offer readers a better understanding. earthquakes liquefaction microscopy particle-scale behaviour reclamation Youd & Hoose (1977) together with Seed (1979) stated that most liquefaction during earthquakes occurs in ‘young’ subsoil. Youd & Perkins (1978...

... 11 05 2016 © 2016 Thomas Telford Ltd 2016 clays fabric/structure of soils microscopy sampling site investigation A significant amount of research has been carried out over recent decades to understand the mechanisms of soil disturbance caused by tube sampling in soft soils...

...-ray fluorescence analysis, X-ray diffraction analysis and scanning electron microscopy are also used to elucidate the effects of mineralogy and particle texture on the slaking characteristics of crushed mudstone. Finally, it is also mentioned that constitutive modelling can take slaking...

... of reconstituted, remoulded clayey materials during triaxial shear loading. On kaolinite specimens, Morgenstern & Tchalenko (1967), using polarised light microscopy, showed a strong orientation of the particles in the direction of the movement during a direct shear test. Hicher et al. (2000) used...