Franco Matias Francisca

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured compressional and shear wave velocities in fine-grained sands subjected to low confinement and monitored during formation of tetrahydrofuran hydrate.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on systematic measurements of the thermal conductivity of air dry, water and tetrohydrofuran (THF)-saturated, and THF hydrate-saturated sand and clay samples at vertical effective stress of 0.05 to 1 MPa.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the relative influence of biological, physical and chemical interactions on the percolation of leachate through compacted soil liners and found that the presence of microbial activity was confirmed by direct observations of the microbial population in the permeating liquid, by microbial exopolysaccharides encountered in the soil pores, and from inverse modeling analysis of pore bioclogging.

TL;DR: In this paper, the strength, stiffness, and porosity of near-seafloor sediments are governed not by overburden vertical effective stress, but rather by interparticle forces arising from the interaction of the ionic pore fluid with the high specific surface (53 to 76 m2 g−1) sediment grains.

TL;DR: The adsorbed amounts obtained indicate the suitability of the tested clays to contribute to the retardation of Cu(II) and Zn(II), transport through clay liners, as well as their known quality as physical barriers.