An Overview on Some Engineering Properties of Fine-Grained Soils
Publication: Geo-Congress 2022
ABSTRACT
Engineering properties of fine-grained soils are quite complex. Primary properties, such as Atterberg limits, mineralogy and grain size, and secondary properties such as water content, density, consolidation/stress conditions, are extremely important in the geotechnical characterization of such soils. This note briefly quantitatively evaluates the correlation among fine-grained engineering properties such as Atterberg limits, soil activity, plasticity ratio, water content ratio, specific surface area, clay fraction, and undrained shear strength of remolded soils considering over 500 data from the literature. Data show that while a good relationship exists between plasticity ratio and soil activity, plasticity ratio cannot be related to clay fraction. Over an entire trend of data, it is possible to state that the undrained shear strength of remolded soils has an acceptable relationship with both liquidity index and water content ratio, that is, the water content related to the liquid limit.
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