Johns Hopkins engineers have uncovered new details about how granular materials such as sand and rock behave under extreme impacts—findings that could someday help protect the Earth from dangerous ...

The global push for infrastructure renewal in developed economies, combined with ambitious new construction initiatives in emerging markets, has created sustained demand for reliable, high-performance ...

Dynamic compaction is a ground improvement method that utilises repeated high‐energy impacts to densify and stabilise loose granular soils. This technique has evolved from traditional field methods ...

When a project calls for compacting material in a trench, it's important to make sure you use the appropriate compactor for the conditions. "Like any compaction job, the challenge starts with matching ...

When you look at the walk-behind compactors in your fleet, chances are you don't think of them as precise scientific instruments. Yet, soil compaction is a science and it requires a certain degree of ...

Using old ideas for new methods of compaction|~|Landpac body.jpg|~||~|Old ideas often hold the answer to many of the technical problems that we face. Construction is no different as commercial ...