Emphasizing geotechnical exploration, the manual guides thorough soil investigation to prevent future failures and redesigns.

Students in Soil Science 100 examining wet soil at UC Davis Russell Ranch, October 2016. A teaspoon of soil teems with billions of microbes that are vital to all life on Earth. UC Davis researchers ...

Keywords: Site response, Soil-structure interaction, Structure-soil-structure interaction, Centrifuge testing, Performance-based earthquake engineering Abstract: This report presents three studies ...

Salts are compounds formed when positively charged cations such as sodium (Na⁺), calcium (Ca²⁺), magnesium (Mg²⁺) and potassium (K⁺) combine with negatively ...

Soil stores more carbon than Earth's atmosphere and plants combined, which makes the speed of soil carbon's decomposition an ...

To make sure buildings and infrastructure are increasingly earthquake-safe, engineers must understand how seismic activity affects different structures. A new era in large-scale earthquake engineering ...

In the basic water cycle, water falls on the land in some type of precipitation (rain or snow). It either is soaked into the ground or runs off into a body of water – storm water or natural.

Clay soil can present several challenges to gardeners due to its density. One way to amend compacted clay soil is with a ...