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Pullout behavior of tree root-inspired anchors: development of root architecture models and centrifuge tests
Construction and installation of foundation and anchorage elements often require large amounts of material and energy, which can lead to negative environmental and economic impacts. In contrast, even with mate...
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Microscale investigations of temperature-dependent microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) in the temperature range 4–50 °C
Microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) involves a series of bio-geochemical reactions whereby microbes alter the surrounding aqueous environment and induce calcium carbonate precipitation. MICP has...
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Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Tool for Civil Engineering Research Prioritization and Project Decision Making
Sustainability and issues related to sustainability (e.g., climate change, depletion of natural resources, and other environmental and ecological hazards) are emerging concerns in the civil engineering profess...
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Open AccessInvestigating Ammonium By-product Removal for Ureolytic Bio-cementation Using Meter-scale Experiments
Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP), or bio-cementation, is a promising bio-mediated technology that can improve the engineering properties of soils through the precipitation of calcium carbonate....
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Open AccessBiogeochemical Changes During Bio-cementation Mediated by Stimulated and Augmented Ureolytic Microorganisms
Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP) is a bio-mediated cementation process that can improve the engineering properties of granular soils through the precipitation of calcite. The process is made po...
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Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics
Bio-mediated geotechnics, wherein biogeochemical processes are employed to directly modify the engineering properties of soil, and bio-inspired geotechnics, wherein natural biological systems provide inspirati...
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Observing strain localisation processes in bio-cemented sand using x-ray imaging
In-situ x-ray tomography has been used to follow deformation processes in 3D during two triaxial compression tests, one on a specimen of bio-cemented Ottawa 50–70 sand and the other on a specimen of the non-ce...
