The hydrophobic association properties of a modified polyacrylamide (HMPAM) solution are attributed to the composition of the solution and environmental factors. In this study, the hydrophobic ...

Infrastructures often suffer severe damage due to geotechnical hazards of both natural kinds such as floods or earthquakes and man-made ones like underground construction work and excavations. The ...

Understanding the relationship between plasticity of muddy soil and earth pressure can be crucial to maintaining tunnel stability and predicting ground behavior during earth pressure balance (EPB) ...