Strength and dilatancy of a silt stabilized by a cement and fly ash mixture
- 1 February 2002
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Geotechnical Journal
- Vol. 39 (1), 77-89
- https://doi.org/10.1139/t01-062
Abstract
The mechanical behaviour of a weakly cemented silt was studied experimentally. The cementing agent was a cement and fly ash slurry, and the samples so formed were slightly cemented. In triaxial testing, both drained and undrained tests on saturated samples were conducted. Special zero effective stress tests were conducted to measure, directly, the contribution of bonding between grains to the enhanced strength and stiffness. The cemented soils were initially less dilatant than their respective parent soils but eventually became more dilatant than the parent soils. The shear strength data followed a curved failure surface that merged back, at high stress, into that of the parent soil. This feature can be captured by a failure function that models the contribution of cementing agent to strength as two parts, true bonding and increase in dilatancy rate at failure. Both parts degrade with an increase in confining stress, but at different rates.Key words: bonding, cemented soil, dilatancy, strength, triaxial testing.Keywords
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