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...description|Geotechnical engineering method used to quantify resistance of soil to erosion}} ..., or it can be applied in a laboratory on either an intact or a remolded [[soil sample]]. A quantitative measure of erodibility allows for the prediction o ...

...description|Geotechnical engineering method used to quantify resistance of soil to erosion}} ...eak|concentrated leak]] forms and erosion begins. The numerical measure of soil erodibility can be used to predict how quickly this erosion will progress, ...

...rmation]] response. The results from these tests are used to predict how a soil in the field will deform in response to a change in [[effective stress]]. ...ring, which prevents lateral [[Displacement (vector)|displacement]] of the soil sample, but allows the sample to swell or compress vertically in response t ...

{{Short description|Maximum stress soil has experience in the past}} ...alled '''overconsolidated''' if the current effective stress acting on the soil is less than the historical maximum. ...

In [[soil mechanics]], '''dilatancy''' or '''shear dilatancy'''<ref>{{cite journal |l ...and Strength Characteristics of Compacted Clays. HARVARD UNIV CAMBRIDGE MA SOIL MECHANICS LAB.</ref><ref name=poulos71>Poulos, S. J. (1971). The stress-str ...

...t to those beneath a {{convert|5|m|ft|adj=mid|-deep|0}} prototype layer of soil in earth's [[gravity]]. | title=Studies of soil pressures and soil deformations by means of a centrifuge ...

...s]] (1908-1974). In fact, the Shields method determines whether or not the soil material will move. The Shields parameter thus determines whether or not th ...essure exerted by the water on the soil is greater than the resistance the soil provides. This dimensionless ratio (the [[Shields parameter]]) was first de ...

{{Short description|Irish geotechnical engineer and professor of soil mechanics}} | fields = [[Civil Engineering]]<br/>[[Soil Mechanics]]<br/>[[Geotechnical Engineering]] ...

...and 1, or as a [[percentage]] between 0% and 100%. Strictly speaking, some tests measure the "accessible void", the total amount of void space accessible fr ...[[manufacturing]], [[petrophysics]], [[hydrology]], [[earth sciences]], [[soil mechanics]], [[rock mechanics]], and [[engineering]].<ref>{{cite journal |l ...

...for soil it is the relative movement of microscopic grains. The theory of soil plasticity was developed in the 1960s at [[Rice University]] to provide for ...e stress tests, temperature-dependent tests, and [[strain rate]]-dependent tests. Plastic behavior has been observed in rocks using all these techniques si ...

...rol plots) and compare them to the plots where chemicals were added to the soil (treatment plots). ...ww.anselm.edu/homepage/jpitocch/anova/multcomp.html Mechanics of Different Tests - Biostatistics BI 345] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/201006 ...

...rmination by a combination of Rebound Number, UPV and uniaxial compressive tests on cubical concrete samples |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2023.04. ...ic testing is an indicative and [[List of materials analysis methods|other tests]] such as [[destructive testing]] must be conducted to find the structural ...

Many tests of the Janzen-Connell hypothesis focus on whether seed or seedling survival ...= Scott A. | display-authors = etal | year = 2010 | title = Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest | ur ...

The tests for physical properties are either covered in [[ASTM]], [[International Org ...ntal damage or contamination of any variety. Contamination can occur from soil, miscellaneous sediment, [[construction waste|construction debris]], ingrow ...

...ope effects are too large to be ignored, they still need to be verified by tests using [[physical models]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=van G ...2019 |title=Design Verification of Afsluitdijk Renovation with Large Scale Tests |url=https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11970/106628 |journal=Coastal Structures ...

...the Rayleigh wave speed and later obtained by sophisticated calculation or tests), the vibration magnitudes of vehicles and nearby ground increase rapidly a ...or & Francis Group |date=Sep 2015 |isbn=9781482288803}}</ref> Such complex soil-structure coupling vibration system may have several critical velocity valu ...

...mutualistic association with these plants, and provide phosphate and other soil nutrients.<ref name="Umehara-2015" /> Third, strigolactones have been ident ...ef name="Cook-1966" /> The isolation of strigolactones lead to a series of tests that proved that this compound was the necessary molecule to induce [[germi ...

In animals, most tests of the terminal investment hypothesis are correlations of age and reproduct ...rger brood size before dispersal (before the larvae start to pupate in the soil) than those that initially bred at 28 days. This supports the terminal inve ...

...idely in the 1950s with the enhancement of seismometers to monitor nuclear tests and the development of seismic arrays. The main contributions at that time ...t1=K.|first2=H.|last2=Arai|first3=Y.|last3=Asaka|chapter=Three-dimensional soil profiling in Kobé area using microtremors|chapter-url=https://www.researchg ...

...ure.<ref name=":4"/> FFF-based 3D printing was used as well as compression tests demonstrated in Figure 5.<ref name=":5"/> The results showed that there was ...easurements. For compost and soil mass loss, p < 0.01, and for compost and soil CFD, p < 0.01 (Table S2).<ref name=":0"/>]] ...