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Open Journal of Civil Engineering (OJCE) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in civil engineering. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of c…
Rebecca Belay Kassa, Tenaw Workie, Alyu Abdela, Mikiyas Fekade, Mubarek Saleh, Yonas Dejene
Expansive clay soils are the types of soils whose volume changes with the change in water content. They have a behavior of swelling and shrinking that is a serious hazard to structures built over them. Expansive soils are abundantly existing soil types in Eth…
Zhenzhen Wang, Yujie Lou, Benxiao Zhang, Bingcheng Shi
At present and for a long time in the future, urbanization in China will maintain a rapid development speed. After the rainstorm, the phenomenon of “sea views” is common. The direct reason is that the urban drainage system and the ground drainage system canno…
T. V. Hromadka II, P. Rao, Mohsen Battoei
Effectively managing floods in urban regions requires effectively designed and well-maintained runoff collection system. The absence of such a system and intense rainfall event will have the potential to disrupt the urban life and cause significant economic l…
Séverin Jean Maixent Loubouth, Louis Ahouet, Raymond Gentil Elenga, Sylvain Ndinga Okina, Paul Louzolo Kimbembe
This work consisted in determining the geotechnical properties of the soil of the Cubitermes termite mound soil treated with lime for use in road construction in accordance with the relevant standards. The raw soil is composed of 29.45% clay, 45.12% silt and…
Gilbert Ganga, Narcisse Malanda, Diogène Pongui Ngoma, Timothée Nsongo, Michel Dzondo Gadet, 1 1
This study includes the manufacture of cement stabilized clay bricks with embedded mahogany chips. The impact of this waste and its interaction with water in the bricks was evaluated on the mechanical properties. The compressive strength tests using a univers…
Ishtiaque Ahmed Tuhin
Overhead sign-support bridges that allow displaying necessary information for travelers across the multiple lanes in highways often use large message sign panels: static message sign (SMS) panels or dynamic message sign (DMS) panels. Along with conventional S…
Stefanie Schubert-Polzin, Alexander Saupe, Ulrich Krause
The apartment fire tests comprise a set of two full-scale fire experiments in a dwelling building made from pre-fabricated concrete elements in April 2013. Two apartments were nearly identically furnished and fully instrumented with thermocouples, video camer…
Ekele A. Ogwu, Friday I. Apeh, Angela A. Ogwu, Babatunde S. Yahaya
Pozzolana which is an eco-friendly and cheap supplementary cementious material has not been established on a commercial scale in the construction industry in Nigeria. Hence, this paper is aimed at presenting a feasibility study to show the viability and highl…
Yasser Fayed, Mohamed E. Sobaih, Yasser El Hakem
The Earthquake can be considered as a natural phenomenon or a disaster based on the seismic response of structures during a severe earthquake that plays a vital role in the extent of structural damage and resulting injuries and losses. It is necessary to pred…
Hans Rönnqvist
The dry-separation method is an alternative to the wet-preparation in the current European Standard for the determination of particle size distributions by the sieving of soils. Due to the risk of error, dry-separation is cautioned against in the standard; ho…
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