Study of the physical and chemical qualities of surface water and groundwater in the upper valley of wadi Rhumel (Eastern Algeria)     

Khedidja Abdelhamid  Boudoukha Abderrahmane 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2018,11(5):85

Our study region is characterized by a varied age detritus Mio-Plio-Quaternary formations. Some training can be an important groundwater sources (alluvial sand, shell, limestone, gravel). Agriculture in the study area is the first socio-economic activity and the largest consumer of water resources. It is therefore necessary to take into account for effective water management. This may causes a risk of pollution of various kinds: agricultural, industrial, and domestic water overlooked the lack of wastewater treatment plants in the region and that all discharges of sewage are dumped into the river are the Rhumel no prior treatment. Wadi Rhumel water pollution factors are multiple and related primarily to the agricultural vocation of the area, the nature of different domestic and industrial discharges. We note that the discharge of wastewater from the town of Tadjenanet and Chelghoum Laid is at wadi Rhumel, the latter during low water turns into open sewer. In times of water shortage, intensive pumping on the outskirts of the wadi locally generates an immigration of a possible pollution load to groundwater. Two major cities in our study area are located along of wadi Rhumel with an estimated population over 100,000 inhabitants. Both towns have uncontrolled landfills where one is located at the upstream of wadi Rhumel. Faced with this alarming environmental situation and the lack of treatment plants, we contribute to the study of the impact of wastewater on the quality of surface and groundwater through a physicochemical analysis interpretation.  相似文献   

FEM Simulations of Granular Matter Behaviour Under Triaxial Tests     

Fergani  Souhila  Allag Ait Mokhtar  Khedidja  Djerbal  Lynda  Pizette  Patrick  Abriak  Nor-Edine  Nechnech  Ammar 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2021,39(2):991-1008

This article presents the results of a numerical simulation carried out from a series of standard triaxial tests conducted on limestone sand from a quarry situated in Algiers (center of Algeria). The main objective of the investigation is to obtain from a numerical analysis a simple soil model to represent the behaviour of the studied material. The 2D Plaxis program is used in this study with the introduction of a model based on the work of Brinkgreve et al. (in: Benz T, Nordal S (eds) Numerical methods in geotechnical engineering, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2010). Corrections were made to the formulas used, which are based on the relative density, in order to improve the quality of the results in terms of soil behaviour, mechanical strength and deformation. The comparison of the experimental and numerical results for the Mohr–Coulomb model gives a considerable appreciation on the deformation and resistance. However, it fails to represent properly the stress–strain curve. The use of Duncan and Chang model (Hardening Soil Model-HSM) leads to an underestimation of the resistance characteristics (values of the friction angles) with an overall error of 7.98%. Our work consists of the application of two corrections to the HSM model. The first correction is based on the work of Brinkgreve et al. (2010), which focused on the common parameters between the HSM and the HSSM. An overestimation of the deformations was observed with an overall error of 155.96%. The second step consists of canceling the correction of the elastic modules (\(E_{50}^{ref}\), \(E_{oed}^{ref}\)) which reduces the error to 1.53%.

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