... 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...

..., for comparison against other studies of macroscopic direct interface shear where CNS conditions have been investigated more often. The test plan is shown in Table 1 . 30 09 2022 17 04 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2024 friction microscopy particle-scale...

... in situ X-ray micro-tomography laboratory tests microscopy particle breakage particle crushing/crushability particle shape particle tracking particle-scale behaviour sands The particle breakage of a granular material that occurs when it is subjected to static and dynamic loads is a major...

... American Chemical Society)) 05 05 2024 24 06 2024 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 bacterial density calcium carbonate MICP microscopy mineral phase Microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP), based on urea hydrolysis, is a promising technique...

... 2024 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 concentrations effect distribution characteristics EICP microscopy permeability Recently, biomineralisation technology has gradually gained increasing attention from geotechnical engineers due to its feasibility in producing mineral...

... 24 06 2022 © 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 grain size granular materials micromechanics microscopy soil dynamics stiffness A realistic representation of the apparent non-linear elasticity exhibited by soils at very small strains (in the zone of elastic stiffness...

...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...

... Telford Ltd 2021 compaction fabric/structure of soils microscopy partial saturation silts However, the desiccation cracks occurred not only for soil slurries (Péron et al., 2009 ; Tang et al., 2011a ; Zhang et al., 2019), but also for compacted soils (Simms...

... is presented. 08 05 2020 17 06 2021 © 2021 Thomas Telford Ltd 2021 compressibility ground improvement microscopy soil stabilisation stiffness For sites where the ground conditions are characterised by soft compressible soils, ground improvement is normally required...

..., the particle is reconstructed in greater detail and thus the reconstructed particle resembles more the original scanned particle. fractals microscopy sands This paper proposes a novel methodology to quantify the morphology of soil grains from nano- to micro-scale in three steps, which would...

... broken into multiple fragments at the onset of crushing): (a) Q-ROK#2 sand; (b) Ottawa sand 10 11 2018 22 06 2020 © 2020 Thomas Telford Ltd 2020 laboratory tests microscopy particle crushing/crushability particle-scale behaviour sands Granular materials play...

... microscopy permeability radioactive waste disposal water flow Despite significant efforts in the last few decades, developing a sound theoretical description of the hydraulic properties of compacted highly swelling clays such as smectite-rich clays has remained a challenge. Experimental...

... Telford Ltd 2019 design ground improvement microscopy particle-scale behaviour soil stabilisation Microbial-induced calcium carbonate (CaCO_{3) precipitation (MICP) is a promising soil stabilisation technique which has been extensively studied for applications such as ground}...

... compression by the swelling of the bentonite behind. 10 11 2017 31 07 2018 Fig. 3. Evolution of swelling pressure with time © 2018 Thomas Telford Ltd 2018 compaction expansive soils fabric/structure of soils microscopy radioactive waste disposal In many countries...

... 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 particles. An understanding of such interactions is a critical step in soil...

...://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) 2016 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. earthquakes liquefaction microscopy...

... during tube sampling. 25 09 2015 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...

...-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...

...-Malabry, France. 23 5 2013 8 9 2014 © 2015 Thomas Telford Ltd 2015 clays fabric/structure of soils friction laboratory equipment microscopy particle-scale behaviour * Laboratoire d'Etude des Microstructures et de Mécanique des Matériaux, Université de Lorraine, Ile...