Soil Reports Samples For Students

Simply put, a three phase electric power transmission is a means of transmitting electric power using three wires. Transmission of an ac (alternating current) relies on this bit of technology. Also a type of polyphone system, it is the most widespread means used by electric power distribution grids all over the world to distribute power.

This method of power transmission was introduced by Nikola Tesla in between 1887 and 1888. The workings of this system are quite easy to grasp. There are three circuit conductors which carry three alternating currents that are of the same frequency and which also reach their immediate ...

INTRODUCTION

Information management is an important concept in any organization. The management of IT management is an important aspect because there is a need to ensure that the business aligns with technology optimally. There are frameworks that have been developed to ensure that IT service management is achieved and undertaken well. One of the frameworks is ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library). One of the objectives of this report is to convince the Terra Firma management to adopt ITIL framework to manage their IT services. The report will then recommend the business process reengineering for the organization. This will mean that some ...

Describe the conservation choices that you recommend for implementation on the farm.

There are numerous conservation choices that can be implemented in the farm. First, crop rotation must be implemented. For example, corn, legumes and small grains can be rotated. Scientific studies have showed that crop rotations that include small grains and alfalfa significantly reduces soil erosion. Likewise, choosing the right rotation of crops will also help reduce the use of pesticides. In planning the rotation, it is best to design the rotation in such a way that the farm will meet the farm needs and goals for the yield as well as prevent erosion.
Crop residue management is also recommended. ...

Abstract

This report is supposed to address the relationship between the characteristics of Coarse Woody Debris (CWD) and its associated invertebrate community. For the purposes of this report, students will be introduced to data collection methods as well as identification and enumeration of soil invertebrates related to coarse woody debris. Coarse woody debris can be said to be the dead woody particles found mainly above the soil surface. These dead woody materials are always in different stages of decomposition depending on when the dead material started decomposing.
For the purposes of this report, only dead wood above 8 cm ...

1.0 Introduction
Categorically, there are approximations that nearly 30% of the overall globe land area comprises of occupied arid and semi-arid areas. Most importantly, water shortages prevent both economic and social development of the mentioned arid and semi-arid regions of the world. The cited economic and social development gets held back because they significantly rely on continuous water supply resources. Due to the constant and continuous interruption of the aquifers (V.E.A, 2005, p.122), the freshwater challenge gets motivated, because, the mentioned water is increasingly becoming salty. The report, therefore, aims at evaluating the feasibility of providing fresh water ...

Module Code and Title

Assignment Question
Report Assessing the Feasibility of different Techniques for providing Fresh Water to Arid Regions
1.0 Introduction
The challenge of sustainable water supply and management in arid areas is magnified by the climatic condition of these regions. The areas often experience a period of six rainless months every year. The areas also experience low and unpredictable annual precipitation of around 100 to 500mm per year as well as extreme potential evaporation (Bunn et al. 2006, p.174). The impact of climate change primarily affects the amount of fresh water supply in arid regions. There is a substantial decrease ...

Introduction

Urban faring is a component of urban agriculture that has the capacity to generate and foster economic development. However, since it is applied in an urban setting, certain land regulations have to be adhered to ensure that the faring does not become unsanitary especially when dealing with waste. Furthermore, land is normally very limited in urban setting. As such, there is need to replenish the soil frequently used for farming. Composting comes in handy in such a situation.

Composting has several benefits in urban farming. According to Walliser (1), compost is very significant in improving the soil structure of the soils ...

Considering the effects of cover crop and intercropping on garden settings

1. Introduction
1.1 Background
Sustainable agricultural production systems, otherwise known as agroecosystems, employ a variety of techniques to maintain environmental quality. Cover crops are one strategy used by growers to preserve and enhance soil resources because of their impacts on soil-nutrient dynamics (such as nitrogen and carbon fixation)and microbiological functions (Steenworth and Belina, 2008). Cover crops such as cereal grass, hairy vetch, and oilseed radish, manage problems in an agroecosystem such as soil quality, erosion and fertility, water quality, pests and weeds because they tend to be less resource intensive than other crops and instead contribute to ...

INTRODUCTION

Consolidation is a process which involves a decrease in water content of saturated soil without replacement of water by air (Terzaghi 265). During the process, two changes occur: (1) reduction in soil volume and (2) increase in soil strength. The results of this test are used in the study of fine-grained, cohesive soils such as clay and clay-silt. Generally, an undisturbed sample is fitted into a consolidation device.
This consolidation device consist of a heavy brass metal ring to hold the soil sample being tested and porous stone discs to cover the top and bottom surface of the sample. The discs enable ...

Introduction

Components that enhance the rate at which chemical reactions that place are referred to as enzyme (Lehninger, Nelson, & Cox, 2008). Through the reduction of the amount of activation energy that is necessary for a successful completion of a reaction, enzymes manage to reduce the time and resources needed to complete the reaction (Cooper, 2000). The activity of a given enzyme is, usually, affected by the level of different parameters such as temperature, pH levels, concentration of the enzyme and substrate concentration (Eed, 2012).
Enzymes work best within a given range of values for each of these factors and deviation from these values ...

Nutritional Report

- Introduction:
This report analyses my nutritional intake for three days. I have created a record of my food intake amounts for three consecutive days. The goal of this exercise was to record how balanced my diet is, whether I am within my recommended calorie and nutrition intake and what are the factors that affect my food choices. It is also an initiative at improving the quality of my diet. It is an attempt at finding healthier food alternatives. The motive behind this is not to participate in futile calorie counting, but to make sure I am giving my ...

The North American Great Plains is home to diverse species of flora and fauna. It is well-known for its prairies, which are large areas of land that are dominated by grass, and could be broadly categorized into three: shortgrass, tallgrass, or mixed (Fick 189). This paper will focus on two species, one animal and one plant, that are found within the North American prairies—the black-tailed prairie dog and the stinging nettle plant.
The black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) is one of five species of prairie dogs that exist in North America, and was the most common and ...

Theb Great 1964 Alaska Earthquarke

Introduction
The Prince William Sound region in Alaska went down in North American books of history on March 27, 1964 for experiencing a fatal earthquake. The magnitude of the earthquake rated on various scales, but the moment magnitude rated it at 9.2mm. The epicenter was located approximately 10km to the east of college Fiord, Valdez 90km to the west of the epicenter and anchorage 120 Km to the east as fig 1.1 shows. The bearing of the epicenter was Lat. 61.04N, Long. 147.73W with an estimated depth of 25KM (American Society of Civil Engineers & Schiff 1991). At the time ...

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Design an Arthropod
For a certain region to be considered a biodiversity hotspot, it must have endemic vascular plants that are not easily seen in other parts of the Earth. A biological hotspot should also have natural vegetation.
Some of the risks that biological hotspots are confronted with include but not limited to the following: population pressures, loss of habitat, and global warming. Human beings bring about massive effect that drives all other dangers to coral reefs. Overfishing, oil spills, coral harvesting, agriculture, logging, coastal development, all of these contribute to the destruction of habitat. In addition, ...

Currently the EN 771-1 has been revised in order to adapt the new element of the Construction Products regulation. This exercise entailed stipulations of the usage of the product and modification to the new CE design and the affirmation of the performance. The new law requires the manufacturers of the construction materials to apply the CE markings. Art. 11 of the CPR emphasis that the manufacturer has to fulfil the obligation of drawing up the declaration performance and to affix the CE marking.

Introduction

The product category rules are important in preparation of the EPDs for manufactured concrete and the ...

Survey of Mick Brumby’s property / positive findings

In conjunction with the United States Department of Agriculture, through its local offices, a soil survey of Mick Brumby’s property was carried out. The soil survey was carried out with respect to the soil profile. The parameters considered were mineralogical make up, thickness of soil particles, arrangement and the physical and chemical properties. This analysis was important in order to determine the water retention capacity of the soil. From the survey, your land is predominantly made of loam soil. The piece of land is situated on a slope, hence some concern with regards to mass wasting. There is bedrock deeper ...

Introduction

In the past, agricultural production has relied on traditional approaches to enhancing farm production. For instance, farmers in the past used conventional approach such as the migration of birds to determine the climate conditions that were approaching. According to Zhang and Pierce (2013), farmers made planting decisions based on their experiences relating to the climatic conditions. However, traditional approaches to farming have severely resulted to a decrease in output because of the different and varying conditions that are beyond the comprehension of human experiences. As such, sensors have been developed for application in crop and animal faring with the goal ...

English bay beaches

Since there is no curvey wave line on the shoreline, we concluded that there are no big waves. The waves present were characteristic of a combination of both transverse and longitudinal motions. When we stood at the beaches and watched the waves, we guessed that the water moved towards the shore. However, after careful examination, we discovered that water was not piling up on the beach. When we watched carefully at some debris on the water, we noticed that a crest of a wave moved it towards the shore, but it moved back the same distance with the wave’s trough.
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1. Summary
The landfill sites were analyzed in the beautiful town called Quillicom. The town Quillicom is a beautiful place located at 3.7 Km south east. Since 1974, it is serving as the place for mining community of Melody Lake. Engiennr Robert Delomc identified the landfill sites and this site has come to operation at the month of April. Unfortunately, this town faces the serious replacement and landfills. The Lot 18 is the beautiful site located 3.4 km north east of Quillicom and Lot 47, is the subdivision 6E, 14.6 Km to the southeast. The cost and the operation ...

Aims and Objective

The highways part aims to provide the student the basic understanding of highways design construction. An understanding of highway design construction needs an understanding of the practices associated with the rote selection is the traffic flows, vehicular behavior, and highway capacity, and also other environment. It is also aims the student to provide the basic understanding of the pavement and the traffic signals.

Learning Outcomes

This case study is to aims to give the student an experience of completing the exercise. The highway route selection, carriage stand, and the pavement design. This allow the student to become proficient in skills to ...

Introduction

The coastline that stretches from Hastings to Cliff End is dominated by cliffs exposing a significant proportion of the Ashdown Formation. Notably, the cliffs stretching from East Hill in Hasting to Pett Beach that are approximately 7.5 km to the East north-east have been distinguished as Site of Special Scientific Importance (SSSI) due to its geological interest. Evidently, the cliffs exhibit most absolute sequence of terrestrial Lower Cretaceous rocks and form the principal exposure of the of the renown Ashdown Formation. In this area, the Ashdown Formation is preserved in low amplitude of the Fairlight Anticline which cuts the coast ...

Apart from good fats there is another food containing bad fat that one should avoid in the best way possible for a good health. Despite avoiding these fats, people are by consensus getting fatter increasing the trend for obesity. The major problem is that we are eating low fat foods and avoiding red meats like the plague.
In Chris Kresser’s article, He gives some amazing and interesting facts about Grass Fed Beef VS. Grain Fed Beef. After reading the article, one would change his or her approach towards some eating habits. People avoid buying grass fed beef because ...

The natural soil contains lots of microorganisms that are sufficient enough to naturally produce nutrients required for agricultural activities and benefit the plants; moreover, that improves the quality and quantity of the yield produce. In a situation where the soil fertility is deteriorated, natural and organic fertilizer should be added as they provide all the necessary nutrients required by the living microorganisms and the plants (Traina & Laperche, 1999). Artificially developed fertilizers are rich in nutrients that boost the yield quality and quantity but should be controllably used as they might kill all the microorganism transforming the productive soil into sand.
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The process of weathering deals with the breaking down of minerals, soils and rocks as well as synthetic materials as a result of contact with the atmosphere, biological entities and water. Weathering is slightly different from erosion, because it does not involve movement. Erosion involves the movement of water, wind, snow or other agents across minerals or rocks. Weathering simply takes place “in situ.” There are two significant types of weathering, chemical and physical. Each can involve a biological component, but the difference is that physical weathering has to do with soils and rocks breaking down as a result of directly contacting ...

It is worthyto note that a somepercentage of data scattering due to personal error in measurement usually occur. There is a thus the need to make a straight line of best fit. There are times when deviations from linearity occurwithout any known exceptions to the Beer-Lambert law. The deviationsfrom linearity could arise as a result of the kind of chemical association, high concentrations of the analyte, and how the instrument is calibrated. Also, a change in the refractive index of the analytical system may lead to deviationssuch changes will only matter in high-absorbance differential measurements.Many substances obey the Beer-Lambert law when at a moderate and ...

Ans 1: The unique formula for environmental impact of populations is “I = PAT” equation, where I (Environmental Impact) is the product of Population (P), Affluence (A) and Technology (T). Environmental Impact can be computed as “Environmental Impact = Population x Affluence (or consumption) x Technology”.
Ans 2: Mathematics is used by the demographers to predict the population changes and trends, and these changes are summarized in the form of graphs, charts and maps. The important determinants of the population growth are the birth (fertility) and death (mortality) rates.
Ans 3: The three major factors in determining population are ...

Minerals are inorganic solid natural substances with a defined chemical composition that are stable at room temperatures and ordered atomic arrangement. They are useful to the health, development and growth of children, therefore one ought to be cautious on the correct quantity being administered as they can too be harmful. The essay will therefore discuss the merits and drawbacks of minerals best for children growth, their composition, quantity and those harmful to their health.
Brain development require essential minerals like iodine for intelligence quotient development and school performance, zinc to support concentration, reasoning and cognition ability and magnesium for ...

Engineering

Introduction
This report was prepared as a review of the likely resource consents needed for a proposed project to build a quarry in the Nelson Region of New Zealand. (See appendix-figure 1) Issues reviewed include explaining the necessary contacts, the expected environmental impacts and some possible ways to mitigate environmental problems. Ultramafic rocks and pounamu areas. can be found at the eastern boundary of the Nelson Region. (See appendix-figure 2) Barker Christie, Robson, and Graham (2006, p. 23) reported that gravel sand and rock for building are located in every region including Nelson Region. Other mineral resources in the Nelson Region ...

Abstract

Bridges are the most complicated structures to design in the Engineering field. The following experiment conducted using spaghetti and any type of glue in building a bridge model. The experiment involved testing how much weight can the spaghetti hold in tensile using a tensile strength testing machine. The experiment aimed at making a practical representation of real bridges and the forces on them. Three main real bridges are discussed, truss bridge, srch bridge, and suspension bridge. The tests were conducted through hanging weights on the constructed spagheti bridge and determining the breaking loads. The experiment result analysis showed that truss pattern brigdes ...

Part I:

Part II:
- Purpose

- Introduction:
Human activity has greatly affected ground water levels over the last 200 years. Ground water has been an important aspect of human, plant and animal survival. However, human activity is quickly depleting ground water reserves through the digging wells. Water from wells is being used for industrialization, farming, settlement, and deforestation. This depletion of fresh water aquifers has led to the ocean water moving into the underground water reserves. This has greatly reduced the amount of fresh water available.
- Hypothesis/Predicted Outcome

Human activity has impacts on the sustainability of groundwater

- Methods
The M.U.S.E. link was used ...

INTRODUCTION

Rio Tinto is a combination of predecessor companies formed by investors in 1873 and 1905. Due to such an extensive knowledge and experience in the mining industry, the organization is regarded as one of the finest and leading global mining and metal company. Being a global mining and metal company, the organization focuses highly on the exploration and processing of Earth’s finest mineral resources with an aim to maximize the shareholder’s value. In order to do so, the organization has the right people for the job and resources to provide the world with minerals and metals. Some of the ...

Affiliated institution

Geothermal Binary Rankine Cycles
Abstract
This report is for a LOW-BIN (Efficient Low Temperature Geothermal project. The main objective is to study and recommend specific optimal Rankine cycles using water as the primary source of heat. The water is at a temperature of 1600C. This Rankine cycle is using R134 as working fluid for the geothermal power machine. This project is supposed to generate electricity from low temperature resources with profitable operation down up to around 600C. The main Rankine Cycle parameters and components are idealized. This is as found in the shell, the tube condenser and the heat ...

Introduction

The history of African culinary can be traced back to 6000 BC. Prior to this period, most of the tribes that resided in Africa mainly relied on gathering and hunting for their daily food. During that time, the entire land was predominantly lush and all types of wildlife roamed free. The farming idea was not on the minds of the Africans at that time. This is because they did not really have any need for that kind of activity. The role of hunting was given to men while the women’s role was to look for fruits and vegetables ...

Research question

The experiment was used to investigate the intraspecific and interspecific competition of plants in the same family. The experiment was to show the competition between plants of the same species and plants of different species. The variables included temperatures, light and water. Intraspecific competition occurs between organisms of the same species and since they are likely to have similar resource requirements they are likely to compete for any limited supply. In interspecific this is a complex ecosystem with many different needs competing for resources such as food, space or light.

Hypothesis

Competition among plants involves a struggle for limited resources such as ...

REPORT: Landscape Planning and Ecological Management: Plantation of bare root common trees.

Introduction
We often take trees and other flora, all around us, for granted maybe because almost all of us have seen trees and captured the word and their image deep inside our sub-consciousness. As we grow up, we learn about the benefits and advantages of trees parrot-fashion. No person or entity teaches us anything about the aesthetics so when we see captivating landscape photographs and images, we take in the beauty without taking in the trees. It is beyond this point that most of us change directions and go off towards modern, fast-process systems, which we then proceed ...

Report

Kate Rice’s article is a quick mention of the very recent grounding of Boeing 787 Dreamliners in the United States as a result of safety fears. She mentions the emergency landing that an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 plane had to make in Takamatsu Airport, Japan as a result of a battery fault. Like the 17 All Nippon Airways 787s and the 11 Japan Airways 787s that were grounded in Japan, United Airlines was ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to temporarily stop using any of its 6 Boeing 787s. Later on Wednesday, the FAA announced that the 6 Boeing 787s ...

Introduction

Mining process is an industrially based process that occurs in a natural environment. Its primary potential problems include disturbance of geological structure of the area. It generates enormous volumes of waste solid material and alters the ecology of the area involved, . This paper looks at the mining of phosphates in St Pierre Islands and its impacts. It also gives the possible mitigation measures together with underlying advantages and disadvantages.

Statement of the problem

St Pierre Island is a small, uninhabitable island to the north of Seychelles. The geologically unstable island is under attack by the sea waves. Its foundation rock that is made up of ...

INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURES:

Introduction to Structures:
The two structural designs selected for this paper are a square deck and a hexagonal deck. The sketches shown below show these two designs as well as their dimensions. The sketches have been drawn to scale and they clearly indicate the type connection between structural elements.

Sketch 2: Hexagonal deck design

Selected design and justification:
Of the two designs, the square design was selected. This is mainly because it is easy to design and implement with little modification to the original design. In addition, the material that was selected for the deck is wood, which is aesthetically pleasing and easy to ...

A bridge is a structure constructed to cross physical barriers such as a valley, body of water, or a road in order to provide passage over the obstacle. Bridges are designed depending on the nature of the landscape there the bridge is to be built, the function of the bridge, funds available to build it and the material used to construct it.
At the level of theoretical engineering the most important geometric development administering the design of the bridge are the vertical and horizontal alignments, the cross section of the bridge, the arrangement of piers for span positioning, height and the pylon/ ...

The Stand Your Ground Law as the law that governs issues and legal position with regard to self-defense. The general definitions of the law covers two basic perspectives, that is, one, that there is practical believe or certain threat to an individual and that secondly, that the option or obligation to retreat is beyond the individual. The legal concepts as provided by the Stand your ground law allows an individual to use lethal force and at the same time act as immunity or a basis for defense against criminal charges. Goodnough, (2005) argues that legal aspects as provided by the ...

1. Canyon de Chelley National Monument is located in Arizona and Utah. It has sandstone canyon walls that were cut open mainly by water erosion. The canyon walls measure one thousand feet in some places. Three layers of limestone and sandstone called Entrada/Wingate/Kayenta make the walls beautiful due to blending shades of red and white. The area is about 83,800 acres. The canyons, gorges and ravines were made by years of water erosion. On the east side of the park sit the Chsuka Mountains. The headwaters that form in the mountains rush down to form the canyons. The ...

Overview of the IT Functions at Terra Firma Medical Systems

The Terra Firma Medical Systems IT & Operations organization consists of departments where a matrix reporting structure is employed and where each function has its own global and functional managers (Singapore Management University, 2011). Business-IT Solutions teams are established to support the 4 product service divisions as well as the Corporate Administration group, which includes strategy, legal and regulatory affairs, and corporate finance. These IT teams are tasked with identifying the needs of the users in their respective business units and developing the corresponding solutions, examples which include either the development of new applications or the addition of enhancements to ...

1. Man support structure
1.1 type of foundation system used
The type of foundation used in this supermarket was the screw piles foundation(Howard A. P., 2009). These are just the system of ground anchors that are made using various sizes of tubular hollow in the anchor or pile shafts. It is these shafts which then transfer the loads in the structure into the pile. In order to make it stronger, the shaft is welded properly using a helical steel plate. This pile was twisted into the ground the way a screw is turned inside a timber. They are made ...

These two photographs show rhinos in their habitat. To understand such pictures, one needs to apply different levels of understanding an image. One of the levels is denotation. Denotation is a word describing an image in its meaning concept, idea or object (Rozakis 14). From the above photographs, the denotation is the wildlife. The image itself shows photographs of rhinos, which are obviously found in the wilderness. In addition, though the two photographs show rhino images, they are different. Photograph A shows two rhinos, which are hornless and the background shows bare ground with no vegetation while Photograph B shows ...

The history of Egypt like most other North African countries cannot be determined with certainty. However, Egypt’s history can be traced to the River Nile. More than 60,000 years ago, river Nile commenced its annual deluge of the land along its banks, this left fertile alluvial soils. Thus, the land along the banks became attractive due to the fertile soils for food production and ease of access to water. Furthermore, people were attracted to the Nile banks due to climatic changes; during dry periods, the Nile banks served as a human confinement area (Kemp 24). Therefore, the History ...

Land and sea polluted with petroleum-based synthetic and natural substances have led to the development of techniques using biological organisms for clean-up. The technique is called bioremediation. “Bio” refers to biology and “remediation” to clean-up. The types of microorganisms used are bacteria fungi and actinomycetes. Bacteria can be used for bioremediation under anaerobic or aerobic conditions. Actinomycetes are generally anaerobic and grow from spores forming filaments and branches. The applications and environment for optimum bioremediation varies depending on the pollutant and the biological organisms. Different combinations work better depending on the temperature, substrata and other environmental variables. The goal ...

Final Exam Geology

Patterns of Surface Ocean Currents

Surface currents are found in the upper four hundred meters of an ocean body and they form major patterns such as eddies, upwelling, and gyres (Garrishon, 2007). Surface currents result from wind energy that is concentrated in both north and south hemispheres forming trade winds which are easterlies and westerlies (Garrishon, 2007). Waves on the sea surface transfer some of the energy from the moving air to the water by friction. Pulling of wind on the surface of ocean causes an accumulation of water with the water displaced underneath the wind forming the movement.
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Introduction

Geothermal energy refers to natural heat stored underground beneath the earth’s crust. On the ground surface the energy is evident in form of hot and altered ground, hot springs and fumaroles. The energy is tapped by sinking geothermal wells underground. The high temperature and pressure fluid is extracted and through carefully built wells and designed network of pipes and channels the hot steam to the plant turbine to generate electricity. The steam and water are extracted at very high pressure and temperature. The application of geothermal energy has gained popularity globally because of its environmental friendliness. There are ...

Abstract

Clean water for domestic use is essential for a health population. Therefore, all people should have access to clean drinking water. Drought is a common phenomenon in arid regions and this makes water shortage a significant problem. The effects of water shortages are experienced in the arid Southwestern parts of the United States, this just being one among the many arid areas of the world. The paper seeks to address and compare the various small and large scale methods possible for water provision in this arid region of the United States. Among the large scale possible methods of providing water for this ...

Lack of fresh water for agricultural, domestic, and industrial use is a great hindrance to development in many parts of the world. According to Mwakikagile, water shortages are more prominent in the arid and semi-arid areas. Groundwater is very sensitive to climatic changes and agricultural exploitation. Over the past few years, groundwater extraction for purposes of irrigation has resulted in disruption of natural balance and aquifer overdraft in these regions. According to Rushton, groundwater reproduction is imperative to establish apposite management policies since the hydrology of arid and semi-arid regions is quite different from that of more humid regions. This ...

Abstract:

Lack of fresh water for agricultural, domestic, and industrial use is a great hindrance to development in many parts of the world. Water shortages are more prominent in the arid and semi-arid areas. In addition to that, the inadequate fresh water resources found in these regions are endangered when it comes to quality due to the numerous man-induced changes. Moreover, the limited water available is limited to groundwater. In there is any surface water, it is mainly flash floods that results from high intensity rainfall that falls for a very short time. Therefore, these floods have very little potential to be a ...

TECHNICAL REPORT 2

REVIEW OF FOUNDATION SYSTEM FOR A BUILDING
For:
Introduction
This report outlines different types of foundations and their suitable application areas in construction. In addition, it presents the plan view, design considerations, the elevation and the significant information that are needed from soil investigations and geotechnical design. Soil investigation report outlines the outcome of the geotechnical examination report for the proposed building and complex in Dubai UAE (Peck, Hanson & Thornburn, 1974). The investigations were conducted in accordance with the conformation which is dated 8th April 2016. The aim of the investigation is to determine the conditions of both surface ...

Wet Sieve Analysis

Wet sieving analysis of soils is used to analyze particles that contain large amounts of silt and clay. The soil particles are washed to ensure that the fine-grained particles are separated from the coarse-grained ones. The extremely fine particles normally clump together and have difficulty in passing the # 200 sieve. In this experiment, the classification of soils is done in order to determine the percentage of soil particle that passes the # 200 sieve. The Wet analysis is used to determine the fine particles in the soil sample (“45Th Anniversary of The Journal, 16)

Materials

Mortar and pestle
Mechanical shaker
Squeeze ...

Common methods of Soil Investigation in the EUA

Soil investigation is imperative for various geological reasons. In most cases, subsurface investigation programs are carried to examine the underlying characteristics suggested by field reconnaissance and office research so as to modify, deny or confirm the assumed properties and conditions below the ground surface. Soil investigation and exploration program present a reasonable idea about the underlying soil condition and characteristics. The main aim of soil investigation and subsurface exploration is to determine the geomorphic and geological structures of the site’s subsurface (Ameratunga, Sivakugan & Das, 2016). There are two major methods of soil investigation employed across the UAE.
The ...

PART 1. Measurement of liquid and plastic limits of a material

Introduction
The lab is performed to test the plastic and liquid limits of soil. The liquid limit is arbitrary referred to as the water content in percentage at which a part of the soil in a standard cup by a groove of standard measurements flows together at the base of this groove for about a half-inch (13 millimeters) when subjected to twenty-five shocks from the standard cup being dropped ten millimeters in a standard liquid limit apparatus that is operated at a rate of 2 shocks/second. Plastic limit is referred as the water content in percentage at which the ...

Introduction

Most projects require materials of varying characteristics that need to be considered before the execution of such projects. A good analysis criteria should be employed when determining the properties of the material in question. One of the ways to analyze a material such as soil is the Undrained shear strength (Suc). This report explains the analysis carried out on a soil sample and the resulting classification according to AASHTO and USCS standards.

Materials

Harvard compaction device
Compression device
Evaporating dish
Spatula
Squeeze bottle
Metal pan
Clayey soil
Procedure
A sample of about 500grams of soil finer than # 40 sieve is ...

Introduction

In consolidation test of soil parameters of a sample, the settlement caused by applying an increased load to a soil sample is measured. These measurements involve the amount of soil that will decompress or compress on an application of a load.

Materials

Sieve nest
Sieve brushes
Tamper
Consolidation device
Displacement indicator
Caliper
Drying oven
Moisture
Procedure
A soil sample of size finer than # 40 sieve is selected to be used in the experiment. The soil moisture content of the is first determined using a representative quantity and the mass of the remaining sample (Wd) which will be placed in the ...

Viable basement and foundation scheme

Given that the proposed structure is a steel building, the foundations will be driven piles supplemented by ground beams also driven into the basement walls. On the other hand, the basement will be built from steel sheets since these are highly cost effective and most ideal to retain the structure. In such a case, a viable foundation scheme is proposed.

Foundation scheme and justification.

First of all, a pile foundation is essential since it is capable of supporting heavy concentrated loads compared to spread footings. End-bearing driven piles are preferred instead of friction piles since they will be pushed into the ground using ...

FedEx Ground

1. Briefly, describe FedEx Ground business model.
FedEx ground is one of the popular units of the parent company FedEx. FedEx Ground was established in the year 1985 as one of the courier services which promises to deliver small to medium sized parcels and packets to its customers all across the United States of America and Canada. The primary customers of FedEx Ground include residential customers. According to a survey, every day FedEx Ground is responsible for delivering three and a half million parcels to the doorsteps of its customers. FedEx Ground has made the most of the technology ...

Introduction

Field density testing is significant for assessing the soil properties of a site identified for a project. The assessment of soil property done through field density testing is aimed a verifying that the soil contained the required properties for the type of project to be constructed at the identified site (Thiers and Donovan 45). This lab uses the Sand Cone Method to verify the compaction of fill material and determine if the soil meet the required compaction with a design unit weight of 2,000 kg/m3. The aim of the experiment was to determine the dry unit weight, to ...