Corn is a colossal grain in the global food and feed chain, with the U.S. producing roughly 30% of the world's supply, or ...

Scientists tested rice under record heatwaves and found that hotter soils by themselves did not cause dangerous spikes in arsenic or metals.

Walk down the aisle of any nursery or garden center and you’ll see bag after bag of materials for potted plants or garden beds. But before you heft the cheapest one into your cart, you should ...

Bearing capacity of saturated soils can be estimated using effective or total stress approaches extending the concepts proposed by Terzaghi (1943) and Skempton (1948), respectively. Recent studies ...

Table 1. Summary of test soil sample gradation parameters and sample preparation density. Rock and soil particle breakage is generally divided into three types (Lade et al., 1996), namely, fracturing, ...

In large-scale engineering projects, such as high earth-rock dams, measuring the shear strength of coarse-grained soils poses significant challenges due to limitations in existing test instruments, ...

What’s in a word? Well, if it’s the word dirt or soil, it turns out, it’s a lot. While most people, myself included, often refer to the stuff under our feet as dirt, it turns out, we’re wrong. Dirt is ...

Abstract: The compaction quality of over coarse-grained soils is one of the most important indexes in the high-fill project quality management, but it is difficult to ascertain the compaction quality ...

Examples of upscaling phenomena with experimental techniques are presented and discussed within the framework of compacted soils for hydraulic and environmental earthworks and engineered barriers for ...

We propose a highly coarse-grained simulation model for crystalline polymer solids with lamellar structures. The mechanical properties of a crystalline polymer solid are mainly determined by the ...