Combating urban heat island effect—A review of reflective pavements and tree shading strategies

VRS Cheela, M John, W Biswas, P Sarker - Buildings, 2021 - mdpi.com
Pavements occupy about 40% of urban land cover, with 75–80% black top roads, playing a
critical role in urban connectivity and mobility. Solar energy is absorbed and stored in …

On the Recent Trends in Expansive Soil Stabilization Using Calcium‐Based Stabilizer Materials (CSMs): A Comprehensive Review

FE Jalal, Y Xu, B Jamhiri… - Advances in Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Calcium‐based stabilizer materials (CSMs) exhibit pozzolanic properties which improve the
properties of clayey soils by hydration, cation exchange, flocculation, pozzolanic reaction …

Fundamentals of soil stabilization

AA Firoozi, C Guney Olgun, AA Firoozi… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Clayey soils are usually stiff when they are dry and give up their stiffness as they become
saturated. Soft clays are associated with low compressive strength and excessive …

The effect of zeolite and cement stabilization on the mechanical behavior of expansive soils

HA Chenarboni, SH Lajevardi, H MolaAbasi… - … and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Expansive clays are one of the problematic soils which impose significant economic
damage to the construction projects due to their volume change during wet-dry conditions …

Laboratory investigation on strength characteristics of expansive soil treated with jute fiber reinforcement

YX Wang, PP Guo, WX Ren, BX Yuan… - International Journal …, 2017 - ascelibrary.org
Based on an extensive list of research work, expansive soil is renowned for its swelling-
shrinkage property. Despite the wealth of research, the strength characteristics of expansive …

Strength and durability properties of expansive soil treated with geopolymer and conventional stabilizers

S Sahoo, SP Singh - Construction and Building Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reports the strength and durability properties of expansive soil treated with slag-
based geopolymer, hydrated lime, and Portland cement. The slag content in the soil-slag …

Geotechnical properties of lime-geogrid improved clayey subgrade under various moisture conditions

S Jahandari, Z Tao, M Saberian, M Shariati… - Road Materials and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This research evaluated the effect of different moisture conditions on the ductility,
geotechnical and microstructural characteristics of the improved clayey subgrade with …

Volume changes and mechanical degradation of a compacted expansive soil under freeze-thaw cycles

Y Lu, S Liu, E Alonso, L Wang, L Xu, Z Li - Cold Regions Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Expansive soils located in permafrost and seasonal frozen regions can easily suffer from the
action of frost heaving and repeated freezing–thawing. When exposed to freeze–thaw (F–T) …

Using artificial neural network and genetics algorithm to estimate the resilient modulus for stabilized subgrade and propose new empirical formula

S Hanandeh, A Ardah, M Abu-Farsakh - Transportation Geotechnics, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of using rigorous modeling artificial neural network and
genetic algorithm to examine the proper stabilization of very weak subgrade soils at high …

A literature review on properties and applications of grouts for shield tunnel

S He, J Lai, L Wang, K Wang - Construction and Building Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Grouting is one of the most important auxiliary methods for shield tunnel, and there are huge
differences of constituent materials and properties of grouts for different strata. To provide …