Geotechnical properties of dredged marine sediments treated at high water/cement ratio |
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| Authors: | Boubaker Rekik Mohamed Boutouil |
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| Institution: | (1) Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Poitiers, 40 avenue du Recteur Pineau, Poitiers cedex, 86032, France;(2) Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs des Travaux de la Construction de Caen, 1 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Epron, 14610, France |
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| Abstract: | Cement and lime are widely employed in soil and sediment treatment for an improvement of geotechnical properties, such as
an increase in mechanical strength which enables beneficial use in various geotechnical applications. In this study, fine
organic-rich dredged harbour sediments of 120% relative water content were treated with dry cement at contents varying between
2% and 10% of bulk sediment wet weight. Tests based on assessments of one-dimensional compression and Atterberg limits were
performed on untreated and cement-treated sediments for various curing periods, as well as grain-size, SEM and X-ray diffraction
analyses. The results confirm that increasing the cement content improves the geotechnical properties of these harbour sediments.
Already in the early phase of curing (first 3 days of curing), particle size increases while sediment plasticity decreases.
Changes in the compressibility behaviour include an increase in apparent preconsolidation pressure, in the compression index
C
c and in the primary consolidation coefficient C
v, and a decrease in the secondary compression index  . This means that the new materials are characterized by a behaviour intermediate between that of fine and that of coarser
soils. |
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