Relationship between Porosity and Water Permeability for Deep Soil Mixing Material
Publication: International Journal of Geomechanics
Volume 23, Issue 7
Abstract
The deep soil mixing (DSM) method is used to improve the mechanical and/or hydraulic properties of soils. The DSM method refers to an in situ mixing of soil, water, and hydraulic binder without excavation. After describing the specific microstructure of DSM materials compared with soils or concrete, four porosity–permeability analytical models from literature and based on microstructural parameters (i.e., porosity and pore-size distribution derived from mercury intrusion porosimetry) were applied to predict the water permeability (K) of soil–cement mixtures. After comparing the estimated permeabilities (Kest) with the experimental measurements of such a parameter (Kexp) using a triaxial cell, an indicator parameter A (=Kest/Kexp) was proposed to evaluate the ability of each model to fit the water circulation in DSM material. By calculating the average ratio 〈A〉 from the 24 materials in the studied database, three of the four applied models satisfactorily estimated the water permeability of the studied DSM materials. To reach an 〈A〉 value closer to 1, an extension of the Aït-Mokhtar's model, initially developed for cementitious mortars, was proposed by considering the specificities of the DSM materials. If previous models used only the contribution of nanopores less than 100 nm to the water flow, the extended model considered the contribution of all pore populations in the permeability calculation. Such an approach resulted in a significant improvement in the matching between the calculated and measured permeabilities.
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