<p>The agricultural potential of Latosols of the Brazilian Cerrado region is high, but when intensively cultivated under inappropriate management systems, the porosity can be seriously reduced, leading to rapid soil degradation. Consequently, accelerated erosion ...

The most useful tool for deciding which soils can be dentified by dynamic methods is the cone penetration test. Based on the CPT data, variation of the coefficient of earth pressure in normally consolidated and overconsolidated soil and effect of soil compaction ...

<p>Many geotechnical engineers who apply Coulomb's equation (1) in plastic limit calculatlons are not aware that Coulomb stated that newly disturbed soil has no cohesion, Values of cohesion c and friction &lt;&phi;&gt; used by geotechnical engineers for undisturbed ...

<p>This Guide to Earthwork Construction has been prepared to provide construction engineers and technicians with information on all aspects of earthwork construction. Although it is not intended to be a design manual, it does contain considerable backgournd ...

<p>Soil compaction is defined as the method of mechanically increasing the density of soil. In construction, this is a significant part of the building process. If performed improperly, settlement of the soil could occur and result in unnecessary maintenance ...