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Basically, the rock and rock-like materials such as concrete and soil are considered as geomaterials. Clays and some other materials which can be related with engineering processes can, also, be included in this category. Geomaterials are essential for life since human construct storage and access/transport areas in r…
Mondésir Ngoulou, Raymond Gentil Elenga, Louis Ahouet, Stevina Bouyila, Serge Konda
Earth bricks could contribute to alleviate the housing shortage in the world, thanks to their low cost, easy production, and low environmental impact. However, to manufacture bricks with required properties, many raw soils must be ameliorated. In Central and…
Fatou Samb, Fortunée A. Fanoukoe, Ariel Joselyne Nzontheu Keno, Moussa Diop
The vibrations induced by railway traffic can affect the stability of structures, buildings and buried structures. To evaluate this impact, this study was carried out considering the case of the Regional Express Train which will connect Dakar to Blaise Diagne…
Lyubov Ilyinichna Yalovik, Alexander Vasilyevich Tatarinov
Spatial-genetic relation of a polycomponent ore mineralization (Au, Ag, PGE, Cu, Pb, Zn, Ni) with dynamometamorphic complex, formed by the picrite-komatiite-tholeiite series rocks of Kelyana-Irokinda greenstone belt, is identified. Productivity of various ore…
Baye Oumar Diop, Ignace Gbaguidi, Papa Goumbo Lo, Aminata Cisse, Seynabou Sène, Makhaly Ba
This study is carried out to appreciate the coarse elements influence of the gravel lateritic soils on the pavement behavior. The material involves not only the 0/20 mm granular particles considered in the specifications and on the laboratory tests, but also…
Marx Ferdinand Ahlinhan, Ernesto Houehanou, Marius Bocco Koube, Valery Doko, Quirin Alaye, Nicholas Sungura, Edmond Adjovi
Discrete element modelling is commonly used for particle-scale modelling of granular or particulate materials. Developing a DEM model requires the determination of a number of micro-structural parameters, including the particle contact stiffness and the parti…
Baye Birane Thiam, Fatou Samb, Adama Dione
The representation in the three-dimensional space of the physical model symbolized by the application of the pairing of the wheels described by 2 disks with a radius of 0.125 m and a 0.375 m spacing has the advantage of more accurately simulating the loading.…
Masanori Kohno, Hiroyuki Maeda
The purpose of this study was to clarify the relationships between results of index tests and uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) in hydrothermally altered soft rocks of the Upper Miocene, which are typical of the soft rock found in northeastern Hokkaido, Jap…
Cheikhou Ndiaye, Yves Berthaud
The main objective of this research is to study the mechanical behaviour of tropical soils using elasto-plastic constitutive equations in the so-called limit and critical states. Indeed, researchers of the Cambridge University had noticed that during their va…
Abraham J. B. Muwanguzi, Aliaksandr Alevanau, Joseph K. Byaruhanga
Simulation of the direct reduction conditions was performed in a laboratory furnace. Lump samples from natural hematite iron ore were reduced by a gas mixture of H 2 and CO (H 2 /CO =1.5) at temperatures of 700 ° C, 800 ° C and 900 ° C. The eff…
Alex Spetz, Erika Tudisco, Ralf Denzer, Ola Dahlblom
In this paper we present numerical simulations of soil plasticity using isogeometric analysis comparing the results to the solutions from conventional finite element method. Isogeometric analysis is a numerical method that uses nonuniform rational B-splines (…
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