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SOIL-STRUCTURE AND SOIL-STRUCTURE-SOIL INTERACTION: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE AT THE VOLVI TEST SITE

Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 2005
This paper shows the results of two passive experiments carried out at the European Volvi test site where a scaled building has been constructed. The first experiment was performed to study the motion of the structure excited by two small earthquakes. For one month, six strong-motion recorders were installed within the structure, at the top and at the ...
Gueguen, Philippe, Bard, Pierre-Yves
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Soil drying and soil structure

2020
<p>Classical soil water retention curves relate tension and water content in soil. Often, the tension is equated with the equivalent diameter of the largest water-filled pores, using the capillary rise equation. This relationship is known to be an approximate one as most soils contain clay minerals that swell and shrink with ...
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Soil Structure and Soil Biology

Ecology, 1936
As Lars-Gunnar Romell has emphasized ('30, p. 842), "Burger ('22) with good reason, compares agricultural soil to an unorganized mass of building material, whereas the natural forest soil, with its definite, stable organization, is like a house built from this material." " It is more and more generally recognized that a natural soil, like a living ...
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The Structure of Soil

2004
The importance and effect of soil structure is outlined in two applications. The first describes the influence of stress history on the consolidation and strength of very soft soils, while the second relates microbial activity to soil structure.
G. C. Sills, G. Bartholomeeusen, D. G. Lintern, M. Harbottle, G. Lear   +4 more
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Nonlinear Soil–Foundation–Structure and Structure–Soil–Structure Interaction: Engineering Demands

Journal of Structural Engineering, 2015
AbstractTwo geotechnical centrifuge tests were designed to elicit the influence of soil–foundation–structure interaction (SFSI) and structure–soil–structure interaction (SSSI) effects on the seismic demands of an inelastic frame structure founded on individual spread footings. Four experimental cases were considered: (1) SFSI of an individual inelastic
Nicholas W. Trombetta, H. Benjamin Mason, Tara C. Hutchinson, Joshua D. Zupan, Jonathan D. Bray, Bruce L. Kutter   +5 more
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Soil Structure, Soil Water and Drought

2011
As much as 40% of the variation in crop yields may be attributed to soil physical conditions. These are partly inherited from the parent material but others are intrinsic to the soil itself – especially the fine-granular structure that distinguishes chernozem everywhere and determines its exceptional fertility, and which is created by grass roots ...
Igori Arcadie Krupenikov, Boris P. Boincean, David Dent   +2 more
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Soil structure

2023
Steffen Schlüter, John Koestel
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A BEM-FEM model for dynamic soil-structure and structure-soil-structure problems in elastic or poroelastic soils

2018
This work presents a time–harmonic BEM–FEM three–dimensional model forthe dynamic analysis of structures founded on elastic and poroelastic soils. This modelis suitable to study soil–structure and structure–soil–structureinteraction problems, theeffects of the torsional eccentricity of non–symmetrical structures or the influence in theresponse of the ...
Santana, A., Aznárez, J. J., Maeso, O., Padrón, L. A.   +3 more
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How does soil structure affect water infiltration? A meta-data systematic review

Soil and Tillage Research, 2023
Christelle Basset, Majdi R Abou Najm, Teamrat A Ghezzehei   +2 more
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Soil structure interaction in poroelastic soils

2015
This thesis presents an investigation of the effects of water saturation on the effective excitation and system response during building-foundation-soil interaction, using a simple theoretical model. The model consists of a shear wall supported by a rigid circular foundation embedded in a homogenous and isotropic poroelastic half-space.
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