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The impact of gasification wastewater on soil microorganisms and the growth of oat and red clover
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Development of an Autochthonous Microbial Consortium for Enhanced Bioremediation of PAH-Contaminated Soil
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Genetic and biochemical characterization of yeasts isolated from Antarctic soil samples
PublicationThe Polish Arctowski Station is situated in the maritime Antarctic on the western shore ot' Admiralty Bay and encompasses terrestrial habitats which are not perma-nently covered by ice, in contrast to morę than 90% of the island's surface area. Over the past several decades, stud-ies exploring the soils of those habitats have revealed a considerable diversity of bacteria, filamentous fungi, and, to a lesser extent, yeasts; however,...
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Environmental aspects of coastal earth structures made of soil-ash composites
PublicationThis paper presents an innovative technology of building the coastal dams with the use of soil-ash composites. A natural- scale test stand and results of the performed environmental tests are presented ; they have been compared with standards for purity of soils and waters. Also, an analysis of the obtained results and discussion of trends and anomalies in the observations, are given.
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Analysis of floor-to-column pounding of buildings founded on different soil types
PublicationThe aim of this study is to investigate the effect of the soil type on buildings experiencing floor-to-column pounding during earthquakes. Five buildings with 4-storeys, 6-storeys, and 7-storeys were considered. Three types of the 4-storey building with different total heights were taken into account which leads to floor-to-column pounding at 1/3, 1/2 and 2/3 of the height of the impacted column. Two pounding scenarios were considered,...
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Analysis of pounding between adjacent buildings founded on different soil types
PublicationEarthquake-induced pounding was experienced in many previous earthquakes and it was found to be a critical issue. This study investigates the effect of pounding between buildings founded on the same and different soil types. Three 3-D buildings with 4, 6 and 8 storeys were considered in this study. Three pounding scenarios were taken into account, i.e. pounding between 4-storey and 6-storey buildings, between 4-storey and 8-storey...
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Pounding between high-rise buildings founded on different soil types
PublicationEarthquake-induced pounding is a phenomenon that has been often experienced in previous earthquakes. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of the soil type on high-rise buildings experiencing earthquake induced-pounding. Pounding between 7-storey and 9-storey buildings is examined under five soil types defined in the ASCE 7-10 code which are hard rock, rock, very dense soil and soft rock, stiff soil and soft clay soil....
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Influence of soil anisotropic stiffness on the deformation induced by an open pit excavation.
PublicationIn this paper, the problem of deformation induced by an open pit excavation in anisotropic stiff soils is analysed by FE modelling. The presented research is focused on the influence of material model with anisotropic stiffness on the accuracy of deformation predictions as compared with the field measurements. A new hyperelastic-plastic model is applied to simulate anisotropic mechanical behaviour of stiff soils. It is capable...
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Magnetic anisotropy and structural flexibility in the f ield-induced single ion magnets [Co{(OPPh2) (EPPh2)N}2], E = S, Se, explored by experimental and computational methods
PublicationDuring the last few years, a large number of mononuclear Co(II) complexes of various coordination geometries have been explored as potential single ion magnets (SIMs). In the work presented herein, the Co(II) S = 3/2 tetrahedral [Co{(OPPh2)(EPPh2)N}2], E = S, Se, complexes (abbreviated as CoO2E2), bearing chalcogenated mixed donor-atom imidodiphosphinato ligands, were studied by both experimental and computational techniques. Specifically,...
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Numerical investigation on dynamic response of a steel lattice tower under various seismic events
PublicationThe present paper presents the results of the numerical study designed to investigate the soil-structure flexibility effects on modal parameters (i.e. fundamental frequencies) and time-history analysis response (represented by the top relative displacements) of a 46.8 m high steel lattice tower subjected to a number of ground motions including also one mining tremor. In addition to the fixed-base condition, three different soil...
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The application of acetylacetone for the separation of heavy metals in roadside soil belts by extraction methods
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Residual Effects of Different Cropping Systems on Physicochemical Properties and the Activity of Phosphatases of Soil
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The use of Kamienna głowa cabbage species for phytoextraction of zinc and cadmium from the soil
PublicationAlthough traditional technologies for cleaning contaminated soils have proven to be efficient, they are usually expensive, labor intensive, and in the case of soil, they produce severe disturbance. Most recently, the use of plants in metal extraction (phytoremediation) has appeared as a promising alternative in the removal of heavy metal excess from soil. Phytoremediation uses of plant for pollutant stabilization, extraction, degradation,...
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The solubilization of hydrocarbon mixtures as one of the mechanisms of hydrophobic pollutants removal from soil
PublicationBadano solubilizację mieszanin węglowodorów alifatycznych (dekanu, dodekanu, tetradekanu, heksadekanu) i aromatycznych (toluenu, o-xylenu) w roztworach micelarnych surfaktantów niejonowych - oksyetylenowanego alkoholu (Rokanol NL6) i alkilopoliglukozydów (Triton BG10, AG 6210). Najwyższą efektywność solubilizacji uzyskano dla Rokanolu NL6. Efektywność solubilizacji mieszaniny zależała od rozpuszczalności poszczególnych jej składników...
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Identification and molecular modeling of a novel lipase from an Antarctic soil metagenomic library.
PublicationIn this work, we present the construction of a metagenomic library in Escherichia coli using pUC19 vector and environmental DNA directly isolated from Antarctic topsoil and screened for lipolytic enzymes. The screening on agar supplemented with olive oil and rhodamine B revealed one clone with lipolytic activity (Lip1) out of 11,000 E. coli clones. This clone harbored a plasmid, pLip1, which has an insert of 4722 bp that has been...
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Effect of biochar activation by different methods on toxicity of soil contaminated by industrial activity
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Removal of hydrophobic organic pollutants from soil by surfactants and biosurfactants solution flushing
PublicationPrzedstawiono wyniki solubilizacji dwóch związków hydrofobowych - tetrachloroetylenu i dodekanu oraz dwóch bazowych olejów mineralnych - SAE 30/95 i PAO6 w wodnych roztworach syntetycznych związków powierzchniowo czynnych oraz biosurfaktantów. Zaobserwowano liniowy wzrost solubilizacji wraz ze wzrostem stężenia surfaktantu.Przedstawiono także wyniki wymywania oleju PAO6 ze sztucznie zaolejonego piasku (w kolumnie) z pomocą roztworów...
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Critical study of crop-derived biochars for soil amendment and pharmaceutical ecotoxicity reduction
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DEM-FEM model of highly saturated soil motion due to seepage force
PublicationArtykuł poświęcono nowej propozycji rozwiązania problemu modelowania zjawiska transportu, które występuje wewnątrz wysoko-nawodnionego gruntu ziarnistego na skutek ciśnienia spływowego. Teoria oparta została na połączeniu metody elementów skończonych (FEM - Finite Element Method) - rozwiązania równań poro-elastycznych oraz metody poszczególnych elementów (DEM - Distinct Element Method), które dały podwójny model numeryczny. FEM...
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EFFECTS OF 13 YEARS SOIL FERTILISATION ON STORAGE QUALITY OF âCORTLANDâ APPLES
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Comparative model tests of SDP and CFA pile groups in non-cohesive soil
PublicationThe research topic relates to the subject of deep foundations supported on continuous flight auger (CFA) piles and screw displacement piles (SDP). The authors have decided to conduct model tests of foundations supported on the group of piles mentioned above and also the tests of the same piles working alone. The tests are ongoing in Geotechnical Laboratory of Gdańsk University of Technology. The description of test procedure, interpretation...
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Adsorption properties of Triton X-100 and rhamnolipid biosurfactant in the contex of soil remediation
PublicationZbadano adsorpcję surfaktantu syntetycznego Triton X-100 i biosurfaktantu z grupy ramnolipidów oraz ich koadsorpcję na granicy faz powietrze/woda oraz olej/woda. Jako fazę organiczną wybrano dodekan oraz syntetyczny olej bazowy na bazie polialfaolefin (PAO). Te same surfaktanty użyto do zbadania zwilżalności powierzchni stałych pokrytych cieńką warstwą substancji hydrofobowej. Na podstawie badań fizykochemicznych nie zauważono...
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Wetting properties of biosurfactant (rhamnolipid) with synthetic surfactants mixtures in the context of soil remediation
PublicationWetting properties of synthetic surfactant Rokanol NL6, biosurfactant JBR 425 and their mixture have been investigated.The results show that synthetic surfactant addition worsens physicochemical properties of pure biosurfactant but exhibits much higher oil removal efficiency than biosurfactant does.
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Determination of p-y curves for offshore piles based on in-situ soil investigations
PublicationOffshore piles are subjected to complex loads with considerable lateral component. The pile-soil response to lateral loads can be described with the p-y method. For a given depth the load–deflection relationship is built to simulate the surrounding soil stiffness. This state-of-art paper presents a brief discussion of determination methods for the p-y curves using a standard approach based on the soil parameters derived from laboratory...
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Comparison of soil models in the thermodynamic analysis of a submarine pipeline buried in seabed sediments
PublicationThis paper deals with mathematical modelling of a seabed layer in the thermodynamic analysis of a submarine pipeline buried in seabed sediments. The existing seabed soil models: a “soil ring” and a semi-infinite soil layer are discussed in a comparative analysis of the shape factor of a surrounding soil layer. The meaning of differences in the heat transfer coefficient of a soil layer is illustrated based on a computational example...
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Testing of the longest span soil-steel bridge in Europe – new quality in measurements
PublicationThe article describes interdisciplinary and comprehensive diagnostic tests of final bridge inspection and acceptance proposed for a soil – steel bridge made of corrugated sheets, being the European span length record holder (25.74 m). As an effect of an original concept a detailed and precise information about the structure response was collected. The load test design was based on the nonlinear numerical simulations performed by...
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Optical flow method for measuring deformation of soil specimen subjected to torsional shearing
PublicationIn this study optical flow method was used for soil small deformation measurement in laboratory tests. The main objective was to observe how the deformation distributes along the whole height of cylindrical soil specimen subjected to torsional shearing (TS test). The experiments were conducted on dry non-cohesive soil specimens under two values of isotropic pressure. Specimens were loaded with low-amplitude cyclic torque to analyze...
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Blast Charge Technique as a Method of Soil Improving to Locate the New Supporting Runways
PublicationA quick and effective method of reinforcing the ground base designed for the construction of engineering structures used for performing various types of air operations was presented. It allows to use wastelands, wetlands, swamps, etc. for these purposes, thus creating a dispersed network of landing sites, increasing the access of large social groups to air transport and increasing their mobility.
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Effect of soil moisture on current-carrying capacity of low-voltage power cables
PublicationOne of the factors affecting current-carrying capacity of underground power cables is the thermal resistivity of soil. Its value in the close proximity of the cable is the most important, and for this reason, in some cases, the local soil is replaced with an another soil type or with a cement-sand mixture. The thermal resistivity of the soil is strongly affected by moisture, and in the case of a cement-sand mixture – as tested...
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Probabilistic estimation of diverse soil condition impact on vertical axis tank deformation
PublicationThe calculations of fuel tanks should take into account the geometric imperfections of the structure as well as the variability of the material parameters of the foundation. The deformation of the tank shell can have a significant impact on the limit state of the structure and its operating conditions. The paper presents a probabilistic analysis of a vertical-axis, floating-roof cylindrical shell of a tank with a capacity of 50000...
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Study of Soil Temperature and Moisture Changes in a Physical Model of an Underground Cable Line
PublicationThe ampacity of power cables is highly dependent on the thermal resistivity of the soil in which they are laid. The lower it is, the higher this ampacity. The thermal resistivity of the soil decreases as its moisture increases. Therefore, it is preferable that the soil around the cables has high moisture. Unfortunately, the heat generated in heavily loaded cables causes the migration of moisture from the surrounding soil, which...
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Extended hypoplastic models for soils
PublicationPoprawione i poszerzone wydanie pracy habilitacyjnej nt. hipoplastycznego modelu konstytutywnego gruntów.
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The Use of Wood Chips for Revitalization of Degraded Forest Soil on Young Scots Pine Plantation
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Catabolic response and phospholipid fatty acid profiles as microbial tools to assess soil functioning
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Headspace Liquid-Phase Microextraction of Chlorobenzenes in Soil with Gas Chromatography-Electron Capture Detection
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GLEMOK – novel method for catchment moisture determination using high-resolution soil map
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A new approach for the extraction of tetracyclines from soil matrices: application of the microwave-extraction technique
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Selected analytical challenges in the determination of pharmaceuticals in drinking/marine waters and soil/sediment samples
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Application of GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques in Multitemporal Analyses of Soil Properties in the Foreland of the Carpathians
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The Influence of the Soil Environment on the Corrosivity of Failure Infrastructure - Case Study of the Exemplary Water Network
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Oiled soil washing in dynamic conditions by micellar surfactants solutions and obtained effluents treatment
PublicationZbadano możliwość zastosowania micelarnych roztworów biosurfaktantu (JBR 425), surfaktantów syntetycznych (Rokanolu NL5, NL6, NL8) i ich mieszanin (Rokanol NL6 : JBR 425) do wymywania oleju syntetycznego z gruntu w procesie mycia gleby w warunkach dynamicznych. Micelarne roztwory Rokanolu NL6 oraz NL8 wykazały nieznacznie wyższą efektywność wymywania oleju z gruntu w porównaniu z efektywnością usuwania oleju przy pomocy roztworów...
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Improvement of the Rhizoremediation efficiency of PAHs contaminated soil under cysteine treatment along with modeling
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Problem of soil science based classification of land in the context of updating land and building records
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Numerical analysis of settlement of a high-rise building using two constitutive soil models
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Transcriptome sequencing of Brassica napus highlights the complex issues with soil supplementation with sewage sludge
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Model test and numerical simulations of earth pressure of non-cohesive soil in 3D formulation.
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono wyniki badań modelowych i obliczeń numerycznych parcia gruntu niespoistego w układzie przestrzennym działajacego na sztywną ścia- nę oporową. Podstawowe schematy wyznaczenia parcia gruntu na sztywną ścianę oporową opatre sa na obrocie ściany wokół jej wierzchołka i podstawy. Uzys- kane wyniki obliczeń przedstawiono jako rozkład składowych statycznych i normalnych wzdłuż sciany. Podano również wypadową parcia...
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Model tests and numerical imulations of earth pressure of non - cohesive soil in 3D formulation.
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono wyniki badań modelowych i symulacji numerycznych parcia gruntu działającego na sztywne konstrukcje oporowe. Analizowano stan przestrzennego odkształcenia ośrodka niespoistego. Parcie czynne gruntu za- sypowego wywołano obrotem ściany oporowej wokół osi przechodzącej przez jej górną i dolną krawędź. Przedstawiono rozkład składowej stycznej i normalnej stanu naprężenia na powierzchni ściany wraz z analizą...
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Large deformation modelling of CPT probing in soft soil—pore water pressure analysis
PublicationThis paper presents the results of finite element modelling with Updated Lagrangian formulation of the Cone Penetration Test in soft soil deposit located in Jazowa, Poland. The numerical calculations are carried out for homogenous, normally consolidated, organic soil layer. The Modified Cam Clay constitutive model for soft soil and Coulomb model for interface are used. The study compares the registered pore water pressure distributions...
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Soil-structure interaction effects on modal parameters of office buildings with different number of stories
PublicationThe paper summarizes the results of a numerical investigation designed to study the soil-structure interaction effects on modal parameters of three office buildings. The reinforced-concrete 4-storey, 8-storey, and 12-storey office buildings, each with additional two levels of embedded basements, represent low, medium, and high-rise structures, respectively. In order to conduct this research, detailed finite-element structure models...
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Establishing Relationships between Parameters of the controlled Compaction Soil by Using Various In-Situ Tests
PublicationThe aim of research was evaluating reliable correlations between chosen soil parameters describing state of surface layers of soil. The paper presents site comparative tests based on the light falling weight deflectometer (LFWD), the static plate load tester (VSS), the dynamic probing light tester (DPL) and the bearing ratio tester (CBR in-situ) with relationships between soil state parameters. All featured in-situ...