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Expansive and collapsing behaviour of volume change soils

This thesis is designed to achieve three goals: Goal One - to introduce the reader to soils exhibiting expansive and/or collapsing behaviour; Goal Two - to provide an in depth understanding of aspects of this behaviour, obtained from an extensive study of these soil types; and, Goal Three - to serve...

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Main Author: De Sousa Vinagre, Tiberio J V
Other Authors: Sparks, A D W
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description This thesis is designed to achieve three goals: Goal One - to introduce the reader to soils exhibiting expansive and/or collapsing behaviour; Goal Two - to provide an in depth understanding of aspects of this behaviour, obtained from an extensive study of these soil types; and, Goal Three - to serve as a reference for future research work (a recommendation for further research proposed in Chapter Ten of this thesis). The thesis is divided in two main parts. In the first part representative soil types were selected on the basis of their properties and expected engineering behaviour. The soil structure and clay minerals were also studied in part one of this thesis. The second part of the thesis deals with aspects of expansive and collapsing behaviour of soils. Chapter three provides the introduction to the subsequent chapters on expansive and collapsing behaviour of volume change soils.
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/23594 Expansive and collapsing behaviour of volume change soils Expansive and collapsing behaviour of volume change soils De Sousa Vinagre, Tiberio J V De Sousa Vinagre, Tiberio J V Sparks, A D W Sparks, A D W Civil Engineering This thesis is designed to achieve three goals: Goal One - to introduce the reader to soils exhibiting expansive and/or collapsing behaviour; Goal Two - to provide an in depth understanding of aspects of this behaviour, obtained from an extensive study of these soil types; and, Goal Three - to serve as a reference for future research work (a recommendation for further research proposed in Chapter Ten of this thesis). The thesis is divided in two main parts. In the first part representative soil types were selected on the basis of their properties and expected engineering behaviour. The soil structure and clay minerals were also studied in part one of this thesis. The second part of the thesis deals with aspects of expansive and collapsing behaviour of soils. Chapter three provides the introduction to the subsequent chapters on expansive and collapsing behaviour of volume change soils. 2017-01-27T08:25:53Z 2017-01-27T08:25:53Z 1990 2016-11-23T08:44:39Z Master Thesis Masters MSc (Eng) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23594 eng eng application/pdf application/pdf Department of Civil Engineering Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of Cape Town
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