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Typical geotechnical profiles of the main soil deposits found in the Maceio city, Alagoas, from SPT boreholes

October 10, 2022

This work had as objective to carry out the construction of typical soil profiles of the main existing deposits in the city of Maceio from a database of SPT boreholes, built in GIS environment. In total, 1,686 records of drilling were specialized in sediments of the Barreiras Formation, Coastal Deposits, and lagoons-river, presenting the most frequent c...

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Compression and shear strengths of sandy limestone and the role of the porosity: a case study

June 17, 2020

This paper focuses on the study of the mechanical behavior of sandy limestone rocks. These rocks are provided from the historical caves of El Haouaria, which are located on of the North Eastern seacoast of Tunisia, and were created during the Punic era. Nowadays, these caves suffer from cracks, randomly distributed with a variable opening size. While, i...

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