Geotechnical and Geological Engineering - Dispersive soils are susceptible to phenomena of internal and external erosion when in contact with relatively pure water due to its particle’s... 相似文献
This paper describes the main features related to lateral displacements with depth after successive lateral loading–unloading cycles applied to the top of reinforced-concrete flexible bored piles embedded in naturally bonded residual soil. The bored piles under study have a cylindrical shape, with 0.40-m in diameter and 8.0-m in length. Both bored piles types (P1 and P2) include an embedded steel pipe section in their center as longitudinal steel reinforcements: pile type P1 has another 16 steel rods as steel reinforcement to concrete while pile type P2 has no further steel reinforcement. Pile type P1 has three times as much stiffness (EI) and four and a half times the plastic moment (My) than pile type P2. A similar load–displacement performance was observed at initial loads as for small displacements of both piles. At this initial loading stage, the response of the reinforced concrete piles is a function of the soil characteristics and of a linear elastic pile deformation. During this stage, piles can even be understood as probes for evaluating soil reactions. For larger horizontal displacements, after the concrete section starts undergoing large deformations, approaching the ultimate bending moment, pile behavior and consequently the load–displacement relation starts to diverge for both piles. For pile P1 the values of relevant lateral displacements are extended to about 2.5-m in depth, while for pile P2 lateral displacements are mostly constrained to about 2.0-m in depth. Measurements of horizontal displacements of pile P1 against depth recorded with a slope indicator show that, after unloading, lateral loads at distinct stages (small and near failure loads), exhibits a much higher elastic phase of the system response. An analytical fitting model of soil reaction is proposed based on the measured displacements from slope indicator. The integration of a continuous model proposed for the soil reaction agrees fairly well with the measured displacements up to moments close to plastic limit. Results of load–displacement show that the stiffer pile (P1) was able to mobilize twice as much lateral load compared to pile P2 for a service limit displacement of about 20 mm. The paper shows results that enable the isolation of the structural variable through real scale pile load tests, thus granting understanding of its importance and enabling its quantitative visualization in examples of piles embedded in residual soil sites.
Flexible-wall hydraulic conductivity tests were carried out on bottom ash, fly ash and compacted specimens of sand with additions
of 0, 3, 6, 9 and 18% of bentonite. In order to study the effect of bentonite inclusion and particle morphology on the hydraulic
conductivity of the admixtures, an investigation was undertaken based on thin section micrographs. It was found that, for
both bottom and fly ash admixtures, bentonite addition reduced only one order of magnitude the hydraulic conductivity, from
1.78 × 10−6 m/s to 1.39 × 10−7 m/s. On the other hand, the sand hydraulic conductivity was reduced five orders of magnitude, from 3.17 × 10−5 m/s to 5.15 × 10−10 m/s. Among several factors that can be responsible for the difficulty in reducing hydraulic conductivity, such as ash grain
size distribution and elevated cation concentration (leached from the ash) in pore water, it can also be recalled the high
particle voids observed in the ash by means of microscopic analysis. The same is not true with the sand, which has solid particles,
without inner voids. 相似文献
The shore stranding of mesopelagic fauna is a recurrent phenomenon in the Strait of Messina (Central Mediterranean Sea). The aim of this paper is to test the influence of lunar phases, winds and seasons upon the frequency of occurrence of strandings of mesopelagic fish. Species abundance in relation to these factors was quantified for the first time. Specimens were collected stranded on the shore along the Sicilian coast of the Strait of Messina between 2008 and 2016. Overall 32 species belonging to seven families (Gonostomatidae, Microstomatidae, Myctophidae, Paralepididae, Phosichthyidae, Sternoptychidae, Stomiidae) were found stranded. Myctophidae was the family including the highest number of species (16), whereas Gonostomatidae was the most abundant in terms of total number of individuals (47.2%), mainly thanks to the species Cyclothone braueri. The moon, which influences the strength of currents (highest during full and new moon phases) and irradiance (higher in some lunar phases, such as the full moon), affected the abundance of stranded mesopelagic fish in the study area. The highest number of stranding events was recorded during the new moon: 34.6% of the total relative abundance of stranded mesopelagic fish. Wind blowing from the sea towards the coastline (southeasterly and easterly winds) created the best conditions for strandings. The highest abundance of stranded specimens was recorded during the winter season. 相似文献
Studies regarding fibre-reinforcement are restricted to clays, silty and sandy soils. No information is available on gravels.
It is worth checking the effect of randomly oriented discrete fibres also on such soils to see if they can be beneficial and
to get a better insight into the grain to soil interaction mechanism. In this paper, the effect of a small amount of fibres
having high aspect ratio on a sandy gravel was analysed by means of tests carried out in a large triaxial apparatus. Specimens
of both natural and fibre-reinforced sandy gravel were prepared by wet tamping at different relative densities, and were tested
along monotonic and cyclic stress paths. The results show that the addition of a small amount of fibres causes a slight increase
in peak strength and a larger increase in ultimate strength at small confining stress, with an overall more ductile behaviour.
The cyclic tests at small confining stress and intermediate strain levels show that, for the lowest applied strain (of the
order of 10−2%), the stiffness was larger for the reinforced specimens, with a much sharper decrease at larger strains and final values
similar for the reinforced and non-reinforced materials. 相似文献
This paper examines the effect of heavy tamping (dynamic compaction) on highly porous structured residual clayey soil. The aim of this study is to analyse the feasibility of this technique when applied on lightly bonded residual soil sites, which are commonly found in tropical and subtropical regions. This soil has some interesting characteristics, such as high fine grain soil percentages (56% clay and 22% silt), a plastic index of 11%, high porosity (initial void ratio of 1.21), high hydraulic conductivity (about 10?5 m/s) and a high stiffness at small strains (E?=?49.2-MPa). The research involves field [Cone Penetration Test (CPT) and the dynamic compaction] and laboratory (triaxial tests, characterization and hydraulic conductivity) investigation. According to laboratory tests, the void ratio decreased to 0.96, hydraulic conductivity decreased to 2.8?×?10?7 m/s, the effective peak friction angle (?′) increased from 30.5° (in natural conditions) to about 35.5°, and the triaxial stiffness at small strains decreased to E?=?20-MPa due to dynamic compaction. CPT results have shown an improved depth in which CPT tip strength (qt) increased from nearly 650-kPa to an average of 1700-kPa and CPT sleeve friction (fs) increased from approximately 50-kPa to about 130-kPa. Horizontal displacements were observed up to about 4.0 m of depth (approximately the same depth at which CPT results showed soil improvement). It was concluded that heavy tamping reduces soil voids and substantially increases soil strength, but also breaks soil structure and decreases soil stiffness. It is thus not a suitable ground improvement solution for highly porous structured residual clayey soil.
The presence of lateritic soils occurs in tropical and subtropical regions. The improvement of lateritic soils that are not suitable for a particular purpose through techniques that combine modification of grain size through the insertion of sand, incorporation of Portland cement and densification through compaction is seen as an alternative. In this context, a dosage method to use a local lateritic soil as construction material in a most rational way reducing the economic and environmental impacts related to this activity is still missing. Therefore, the current research aims to evaluate the performance of a lateritic soil via modification of grain size through the insertion of sand, incorporation of Portland cement and densification through compaction. For this, unconfined compression, and durability (wetting and drying) tests were carried out on specimens of compacted clayey gravel lateritic soil, whose granulometry was modified by the insertion of distinct amounts (from zero to 45%) of weathered sand, treated with distinct Portland cement contents (from 4 to 10%), molded at different dry unit weights (from 16.8 to 20.1 kN/m3) and cured for 7 and 28 days. Results of the mechanical tests have shown the significant influence exerted by cement content and dry unit weight of the blend, followed by curing time and finally sand insertion. Satisfactory correlations between the response variables (qu and ALM) and the adjusted porosity/cement index (η/Cv) were obtained. Furthermore, an innovative approach to replacing the laborious durability test is proposed.
Soil stabilization with cement is a good solution for the construction of subgrades for roadway and railway lines, especially
under the platforms and mostly in transition zones between embankments and rigid structures, where the mechanical properties
of supporting soils are very influential. These solutions are especially attractive in line works where other ground improvement
techniques are extensive and, therefore, very expensive. On the other hand, the economic and environmental costs of such works
should be optimized with good balances between excavation and embankment volumes. For this purpose, the improvement of locally
available soils can bring great advantages, avoiding a great amount in borrowing appropriate material, as well as the need
of disposing huge volumes in deposits. This paper focus on the characteristics of two soils, Osorio sand and Botucatu residual
sandstone, which can be converted to well acceptable materials for this purpose, if stabilized with cement. The study of soil
stabilization with cement relies on the quantification of the influence of percentage of cement and porosity adopted in the
admixing process for different state and stress conditions. This influence will be evaluated from the analysis of unconfined
compression strength (UCS or qu) test results. This experimental framework will enable a good definition of mechanical parameters used in design of foundations
and subgrades of railways platforms and for their execution quality control. 相似文献
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of water-cement ratio and cement content on the hydraulic behavior of soil–cement–bentonite (SCB) and soil–bentonite (SB) mixtures permeated with water and diesel oil, to assist with the design of vertical cutoff walls constructed with those mixtures. The experimental program included unconfined compression tests, hydraulic conductivity tests and X-ray diffraction analysis. The test results indicated changes in hydraulic conductivity take place due to the variation of the water-cement ratio and permeant fluid. The hydraulic conductivity of the SB mixtures permeated with diesel oil was higher than the hydraulic conductivity of the same samples permeated with water. X-ray diffraction analyses suggest that this might be due to the decrease in double layer thickness and increase of seepage pore space imparted by diesel oil permeation. Conversely, Portland cement addition increased the hydraulic conductivity of the SCB specimens permeated with water, whereas subsequent diesel oil permeation reduced the hydraulic conductivity of the SCB specimens; this might be due to the relatively lower impact imparted by diesel permeation on the double layer characteristics of the bentonite stabilized with Portland cement. 相似文献
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