Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

Although numerous studies were conducted on coal utilisation processes overall, due to the
recent expansion of the coal industry, processes which involve within the reservoir bares a …

The understanding of the swelling phenomenon of montmorillonite is essential to predict the
physical and chemical behavior of clay-based barriers in geoenvironmental engineering …

The swelling properties of smectite clay minerals are relevant to many engineering
applications including environmental remediation, repository design for nuclear waste …

Hydration of the< 1 μm size fraction of SWy-1 source clay (low-charge montmorillonite) was
studied by modeling of X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns recorded under controlled relative …

The reaction mechanism of alkali-silica reaction (ASR) is poorly understood due to the
difficulties to directly characterize ASR products in concrete. In this study, ASR products with …

The swelling of some well-defined Mg-, Ca-, Sr-and Ba-homoionic montmorillonites was
studied in the domain of water relative pressures lower than 0.95. This involves the …

Water adsorption on kaolinite, illite, and montmorillonite clays was studied as a function of
relative humidity (RH) at room temperature (298 K) using horizontal attenuated total …

Cesium adsorption on the clay minerals vermiculite and montmorillonite is described as a
function of surface coverage using extended X-ray adsorption fine structure spectroscopy …

The dehydration of two Na-saturated synthetic saponites with contrasting layer charge was
studied by modeling the X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns recorded along a water vapor …