Restraint of Particle Breakage by Biotreatment Method
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 146, Issue 11
Abstract
The particle breakage and compressibility behavior of sands treated with microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) has been investigated using oedometric compression tests. The acid washing technique was used to obtain the calcium carbonate () content and facilitate quantification of particle breakage by measurement of the particle size distribution (PSD). It was found that the compressibility was lower for specimens with a large content. Particle breakage increased with an increase in the stress or input work for specimens with approximately the same content. In addition, for a given applied stress or input work, MICP-treated specimens exhibited smaller particle breakage than untreated specimens, which shows that the MICP treatment can effectively restrain particle breakage.
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All data and models generated and used during the study appear in the published article.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from the 111 Project (Grant No. B13024), the National Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41831282, 51678094, and 51578096), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 106112017CDJQJ208848), and the Special Financial Grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2017T100681). T. Matthew Evans was partially supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Grant No. CMMI-1538460). The authors gratefully acknowledge this support.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 146 • Issue 11 • November 2020
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Received: Feb 26, 2019
Accepted: Jun 18, 2020
Published online: Sep 2, 2020
Published in print: Nov 1, 2020
Discussion open until: Feb 2, 2021
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