Influence of Cement-Voids Ratio on Stress-Dilatancy Behavior of Artificially Cemented Sand
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 138, Issue 1
Abstract
The addition of cement is an interesting remediation technique when the project requires improvement of the local soil for the construction of pavement base layers, in slope protection of earth dams and canal linings, as a support layer for shallow foundations and to prevent sand liquefaction. The present study was carried out to quantify the influence of the amount of cement and the porosity in a cement-voids ratio, defined as the ratio between the volume of cement and the volume of voids of a mixture, on the stress-dilatancy behavior of an artificially cemented sand. A program of triaxial compression tests considering three distinct cement-voids ratios was carried out with two combinations of volumes of voids and volumes of cement at each cement-voids ratio. Results showed that the stress-dilatancy relationship is alike for a given cement-voids ratio and that the stress-strain behavior is also similar. The cement-voids ratio is therefore an appropriate parameter to assess stress-dilatancy of the sand-cement mixture studied.
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Acknowledgments
The authors wish to express their gratitude to MCT/CNPq (Brazilian Research Council—Ministry of Science and Technology—Projects Produtividade em Pesquisa, Edital Universal, PNPD and INCT), Brazilian Agency for Electrical Energy (ANEEL—Project P&D CEEE-GT/UFRGS), PRODOC/CAPES, and to MCTES/FCT (Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation of Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology) for their support to the research group.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 138 • Issue 1 • January 2012
Pages: 100 - 109
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© 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Mar 10, 2010
Accepted: May 9, 2011
Published online: May 11, 2011
Published in print: Jan 1, 2012
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