This study is a survey to assess the flexible pavement conditions to identify and specify the
different pavement failure types for the selected road segment. Most of the roads constructed
in Ethiopia fail before ...
In tropical countries, including Ethiopia Expansive soils are difficult deposits for civil
engineering construction because they swell and shrink during the wet and dry seasons,
respectively. The ...
Accurate and cost-effective approaches are required to determine the unsaturated soil
property functions. Past research studies have indicated that particle-size distribution
data of soils are a ...
This thesis abstract explores the utilization of soil as a readily available and abundant
resource for various applications, including cost-effective alternatives to traditional
construction materials. While ...
With a rapid growth of population in developing countries like Ethiopia, the constructions
of residential and commercial developments are booming in urban areas. New
developments are constructed adjacent to ...
As soil moisture content varies, expansive soils experience significant volume
changes, causing significant damage to foundations built on these soils. To minimize
the problem, the determination of volume ...
Correlations are important to estimate engineering properties of soils particularly for
project where there is a financial limitation, lack of test equipment or limited time.
Although correlations ...
The recompression and compression index of fine-grained soil, obtained from the onedimensional consolidation test, is used to determine the settlement of over-consolidated
and normally consolidated fine-grained ...
Unsaturated soils are a common feature in many regions worldwide and play a crucial
role in various geotechnical engineering applications. However, the complex and timeconsuming nature of determining unsaturated ...
Any civil engineering construction needs soil as its fundamental basis and the stability of
these structures depends greatly on the quality of the underlying soils. Poorly engineered
soils are difficult to build on ...
Lateritic soils are used as the construction of road sub-base materials. Some lateritic soil
does not satisfy the sub-base specifications recommended by Ethiopia Road Authority
(ERA). This research was focused on ...