TEXT Bensaci Hamza1*, Menadi Belkacem1*, Kenai Said1, Mehmet Serkan Kırgız2,3*
1Geomaterials Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Blida 1, Algeria
2Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Istanbul Gelisim
University, Istanbul/Turkey
3Northwestern University, Chicago, IL/USA; *Correspondence: