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http://dx.doi.org/10.7843/kgs.2014.30.2.65

Effect of Sand Contents on Plastic and Liquid Limits and Shear Strength of Clays  

Park, Sung-Sik (Dept. of Civil Engrg., Kyungpook National Univ.)
Nong, Zhenzhen (Dept. of Civil Engrg., Kyungpook National Univ.)
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Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society / v.30, no.2, 2014 , pp. 65-76 More about this Journal
Abstract
For soil improvement, sand mats or sand compaction piles are often constructed on soft marine clays. In such cases, some amounts of sand and clay are inevitably mixed. Sand or gravel often exists in the weathered soils near the slope surface. This research investigates the effect of mixing sand content on consistency limits and shear strength of clays. Firstly, sand was mixed with kaolinite or bentonite at 0, 9, 17, 23, 29, 33, 50% and then liquid and plastic limits were measured. Both plastic and liquid limits decreased as a sand content increased. The water content of clay-sand mixtures with different sand content increased by 10% or 20% step by step and then their undrained shear strength was measured using a portable vane shear device called Torvane. For all cases, undrained shear strength of clay-sand mixtures decreased rapidly until reaching a certain value. Their state changed from undrained to drained state gradually as the sand content increased, which caused their undrained shear strength to decrease. On the other hand, a series of direct shear tests were also conducted on such clay-sand mixtures to investigate the effect of sand content on cohesion and angle of internal friction. It was found from clay-sand mixtures that their cohesion decreased but angle of internal friction increased as the sand content increased.
Keywords
Sand; Clay; Liquid limit; Plastic limit; Shear strength;
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