Fatigue Performance of Cement-Stabilized Crushed Gravel Produced Using Vertical Vibration Compaction Method
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 32, Issue 11
Abstract
In this study, the fatigue performance of cement-stabilized crushed gravel (CSCG) is examined. The mechanical strength of CSCG specimens formed using the vertical vibration compaction method (VVCM) or quasi-static compaction method (QSCM) is compared with that of field core samples (FCS). Cylindrical specimens formed using VVCM are used to study the splitting fatigue performance, and a fatigue equation is established using Weibull distribution. The factors that influence the fatigue performance, namely gradation and cement content, are also analyzed. The results show that the correlation of mechanical strength between FCS and CSCG formed using VVCM is as high as 90%, whereas that between FCS and CSCG formed using QSCM is . The splitting fatigue life of CSCG obeys the two-parameter Weibull distribution. The results also show that gradation and cement content have significant effects on the fatigue performance of CSCG. For a stress level of 0.65 and reliability of 50%, compared with the fatigue life of CSCG with suspended dense gradation, those with skeleton dense gradation improved by 22.4% and 9%, and the fatigue life of CSCG significantly increased by 44.5% and 28.6% when the cement content was 3% and 5%, respectively.
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Acknowledgments
This research was supported by the Science and Technology Project of Henan Provincial Department of Transportation (No. 2014K49-1), the Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Transportation (No. 2015J20), and the Scientific Research of Central Colleges of China for Chang’an University (Nos. 300102218205 and 300102218212). The authors gratefully acknowledge this financial support.
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Volume 32 • Issue 11 • November 2020
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Received: Oct 19, 2019
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Published online: Aug 18, 2020
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