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Modified Liu-Carter Compression Model for Natural Clays with Various Initial Water Contents
The initial water content has a significant effect on the compression behaviour of reconstituted clays. This effect has to be considered in the Liu-Carter model to ensure the addition voids ratio only related to soil structure. A modified Liu-Carter compression model is proposed by introducing the empirical equations for reconstituted clays at different initial water contents into the Liu-Carter model. The proposed model is verified against the experimental results from the literature. The simulations by the proposed method are also compared with that by old method where the influence of initial water content is not considered. The results show that the predicted virgin compression curves of natural clays are similar, but the values of b and Δey may be very different
Distinct behaviors of suppression to superconductivity in induced by Fe and Co dopants
In the superconductor LaRuSi with the Kagome lattice of Ru, we have
successfully doped the Ru with Fe and Co atoms. Contrasting behaviors of
suppression to superconductivity is discovered between the Fe and the Co
dopants: Fe-impurities can suppress the superconductivity completely at a
doping level of only 3%, while the superconductivity is suppressed slowly with
the Co dopants. A systematic magnetization measurements indicate that the doped
Fe impurities lead to spin-polarized electrons yielding magnetic moments with
the magnitude of 1.6 \ per Fe, while the electrons given by the Co
dopants have the same density of states for spin-up and spin-down leading to
much weaker magnetic moments. It is the strong local magnetic moments given by
the Fe-dopants that suppress the superconductivity. The band structure
calculation further supports this conclusion.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
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