One-dimensional consolidation test is one of the commonly conducted laboratory tests used to determine the stiffness and compression properties of fine grained soils. Study on predicting bearing capacity and compressibility ...

The CBR test is the most widespread method of determining the bearing strength of pavement materials and is fundamental to pavement design. Almost all road construction manuals of Ethiopia recommend CBR tests for flexible ...

The most commonly used types of shallow foundations are isolated footings, strap footings and combined footings. A team of expertise involving engineers, draftspersons, quantity surveyors, and others frequently do the ...

Expansive soils, such as black cotton soils, are basically susceptible to detrimental volumetric changes, with change in moisture. The cyclic wetting and drying process causes vertical movements in expansive soils and ...

Expansive soils are worldwide problems that pose several challenges to civil engineers. Such soils swell when given access to water and shrink when they dry out. The most common and economical method for stabilizing these ...

For soils to be suitable in civil engineering projects, they must meet existing local requirements for index properties in addition to certain strength criteria. Typically, specification limits these properties to some ...

The old traditional earth block methods of construction are currently reconsidered as a very environmentally friendly alternative to modern buildings due to the advantages they provide, such as the complete recycling of ...

This research work tries to examine the effect of strain rate on shear strength of red clay soil of Asela. It is attempted to identify the effect of strain rate by conducting a series of triaxial compression test and ...

Yeka sub-city is located in the North East part of Addis Ababa. The geographical location of Yeka subcity is 9 0 ’ 12 0 latitude N and 38 50’ E longitude. The subcity is characterized by variable topographic ...

Expansive soil and bedrock underlie more than one third of world‘s land surface. It is recorded in other countries that each year, damage to buildings, roads, pipelines, and other structures by Expansive soils is much ...