Soil consolidation refers to the mechanical process by which soil changes volume gradually in response to a change in pressure. This happens because soil...

from a consolidated soil, the soil will rebound, drawing water back into the pores and regaining some of the volume it had lost in the consolidation process...

editing in computing Consolidation (locomotive), popular name of a steam locomotive with a 2-8-0 wheel arrangement Consolidation (soil), a geological process...

settlement of clay layers due to consolidation. Afterwards, Maurice Biot fully developed the three-dimensional soil consolidation theory, extending the one-dimensional...

engineering that measures a soil's consolidation properties. Oedometer tests are performed by applying different loads to a soil sample and measuring the...

between the soil grains, then consolidation, not compaction, has occurred. Normally, compaction is the result of heavy machinery compressing the soil, but it...

arrangements, and pore water is expelled. The term is particularly used for soil consolidation. Rarely, as a term for the conversion of a mobile belt to a rigid...

the original population with a new society of settlers Soil consolidation, a process by which soils decrease in volume Squatting, occupying an abandoned...

crops from frost, suppress weed growth in grain fields, and prevent soil consolidation. It is also used to cool livestock, reduce dust, dispose of sewage...

series of papers in the 1920s based on his examination of building consolidation on soil. The principle states that all quantifiable changes in stress to...