%0 Journal Article
%T Practical Engineering Behavior of Egyptian Collapsible Soils, Laboratory and <i>In-Situ</i> Experimental Study
%A Naema A. Ali
%J Open Journal of Civil Engineering
%P 290-300
%@ 2164-3172
%D 2021
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojce.2021.113017
%X In many sites on Egypt desert roads collapsible soils <span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">is</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> broadly classified as a problematic soils contain</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">ing</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> silty fine sand which </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">is </span></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">cemented
with low density and low degree of saturation which is susceptible to a large
and sudden reduction in their v</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">olume upon
inundation, with or without vibration in its stress. Four sites have been
studied for new urban</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">, </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">roads and industry work sits, related to increase in natural water
content</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">.</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> These soils go through radical rearrangement of
their particles, causing sudden changes in the stress-deformation behavior
which caus</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">e</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> differential settlement of foundation and roads.
This chan</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">ge in volume can lead to foundation failures and
worth of damages under ground public facilities and infrastructure. In this
study, the search program </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span
%K Natural Water Content
%K Natural Soil Structure
%K Collapsibility Properties
%K Field Test
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=111436