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The engineering geology of the Nottingham area, UK [PDF]

, 2009
Nottingham was built near a crossing point on the River Trent in the East Midlands of England. Initially, the City developed on a low sandstone hill close to the north bank of the river, which provided a secure, well-drained location above the marshes ...
Bell, F.G., Culshaw, M.G., Forster, A., Nathanail, C.P.   +3 more
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Development of a trench cutting re-mixing deep wall method model test device [PDF]

, 2020
The trench cutting re-mixing deep wall (TRD) is a new type of underground waterproof curtain. Mixing uniformity is the key index affecting the efficiency and quality of this method.
Bezuijen, Adam, Jiang, Peng, Li, Ke-xian, Liu, Ren-tai, Liu, Yan-kai, Zhang, Qing-song   +5 more
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Site investigation for the effects of vegetation on ground stability [PDF]

, 2006
The procedure for geotechnical site investigation is well established but little attention is currently given to investigating the potential of vegetation to assist with ground stability.
A. Stokes, B.A. Gardiner, C.R.I. Clayton, D.H. Barker, D.H. Gray, D.M. McCann, G.C. Topp, G.J. Gaskin, J. Hruska, J. Perry, J.E. Norris, J.E. Norris, J.R Greenwood, J.R. Greenwood, J.R. Greenwood, Jo Wint, Joanne E. Norris, John R. Greenwood, M.G. Anderson, N. Simons, N.J. Coppin, R.B.J. Brinkgreve, T.H Wu, V. Operstein   +23 more
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Behaviour of compacted silt used to construct flood embankment [PDF]

, 2011
This paper investigates the unsaturated mechanical behaviour of a fill material sampled from flood embankments located along the Bengawan Solo River in Indonesia.
El Mountassir, G., Romero, E., Sanchez, M., Soemitro, R. A. A.   +3 more
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Influence of time-dependence on failure of echelon rock joints through a novel DEM model [PDF]

, 2015
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in [European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering] on [September 2015], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/19648189.2015.1064624This article ...
Jiang, Mingjing, Rodríguez Dono, Alfonso, Shao, Jianfu, Sun, Chao, Zhang, Ning   +4 more
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Possibilities of improving exactness of engineering-geology research results by the monitoring of the driving process [PDF]

Acta Montanistica Slovaca, 2000
In detail engineering-geology, hydrology and geotechnical research at driving a part of exploration gallery Branisko was fulfilled by results of computer application for the computing monitoring information of TBM driving process according to different ...
Krúpa Víazoslav, Lazarová Edita
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Geophysical characterization of derelict coalmine workings and mineshaft detection: a case study from Shrewsbury, United Kingdom [PDF]

, 2009
A study site of derelict coalmine workings near Shrewsbury, United Kingdom was the focus for multi‐phase, near‐surface geophysical investigations. Investigation objectives were: 1) site characterization for remaining relict infrastructure foundations, 2)
Cassidy, NJ, Caunt, S, Husband, CR, Jones, GM, Lane, VS, Pringle, JK, Stimpson, IG, Styles, P, Toon, SM   +8 more
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Geology, Engineering and Humanities: three sciences behind the Malpasset dam failure (France, 2 December 1959)

Quarterly journal of engineering geology and hydrogeology, 2019
On 2 December 1959, the Malpasset arch dam in SE France suddenly failed, flooding the valley down to the sea, causing huge destruction and more than 400 deaths. Built from 1952 to 1954 for water supply and irrigation, filling of the reservoir was delayed
P. Duffaut, J. Larouzée
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Investigation into the effect of uncertainty of CPT-based soil type estimation on the accuracy of CPT-based pile bearing capacity analysis [PDF]

, 2016
Cone Penetration Test (CPT or CPTu) is commonly used for estimating soil types and also for the geotechnical design of pile foundation. However, the level of agreement between the CPT-based soil types and the traditional identification of soil types ...
Bellis, Angela, Hamza, Omar
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Evaluation structures for machine learning models in geotechnical engineering

Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards
There is currently a lot of interest in applying machine learning (ML) techniques to problems in geotechnical (soil and rock) engineering and adjacent fields such as engineering geology.
N. Bozorgzadeh, Yun-Xia Feng
semanticscholar   +1 more source