When African modern construction system establish with the colonization by Europe, it starts with soil investigation trend of western sedimentary soil which is different from African tropical residual soils. Ethiopian ...

Effect of Testing Treatments on Compaction and Strength (CBR) Characteristics of Tropical Soils of Northwestern Ethiopia for Highway Subgrade Material Requirements Properties of tropically weathered residual soils are ...

The main objective of this study is to test and analyze the effectiveness of Quarry Dust (QD) as a stabilizer on the Geotechnical Properties of Black Cotton Soils (BCS) in Bahirdar; due to the reason that Black Cotton Soils ...

A large portion of the earth’s surface is covered by soils and they are widely used as construction and foundation materials. Specially soil mechanics is the branch of Engineering that deals with two main objectives ...

The interaction of the soil with the structure has been largely explored with the assumption of material and geometrical linearity of the soil. Nevertheless, for moderate or strong seismic events, the maximum shear strain ...

Square isolated footings are widely used in practice. They may exist in close proximity at different depth with each other, this time designer must be aware of their influence upon one another. This leads to the overlapping ...

Expansive soils, such as black cotton soils, are basically susceptible to detrimental volumetric changes, with changein moisture content. The cyclic wetting and drying process causes vertical movements in expansive soils ...