Influence of grain size gradation of sand impurities on strength behaviour of cement-treated clay
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RESEARCH PAPER
Influence of grain size gradation of sand impurities on strength behaviour of cement-treated clay S. C. Chian1 • J. Bi1 Received: 18 April 2020 / Accepted: 12 October 2020 Ó Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract In nature, soils are often composed of varying amounts of clay, silt and sand. Variation of the percentage of these compositions can affect the final strength of the soils when stabilised with cement. In this study, focus was placed on clayey soils with different gradation of sand impurities up to 40% in mass. An extensive study of such clayey soils treated with cement was investigated. For the results, it is noted that water:cement ratio was a major influence of strength development of cement-treated clayey soils. In contrast, the soil:cement ratio was found to have minor effects on the strength development. The presence of sand impurities has a significant reduction on the strength development of the cement-treated clayey soil mixture due to more free water available for hydration. The use of free-water:cement ratio is adopted which was shown to be capable of adjusting for such change in amount of free water and water holding capacity of the clay which is determined with Atterberg’s liquid limit tests. The effects of gradation (fine, coarse and well-graded) of the sand impurities were found to affect strength development minimally, owing to similarities in their liquid limits when mixed with clay. Ordinary Portland cement (OPC)-treated clayey soils produced a more rapid gain in strength but lower final strength at 28 days of curing as compared with Portland blast furnace cement (PBFC). This is found to be persistent for different gradation of sand impurities. A linear correlation can be established based on the log of the unconfined compressive strengths developed at different curing age, with slopes of these linear trends found to be similar for PBFC and OPC-treated clayey soil specimens. Finally, a strength prediction model comprising of these findings is developed. The parameters adopted in this model coincide with values proposed by past studies, thereby validating the robustness of the model. The practical benefits from this study offer a quality control scheme to forecast long-term performance of cement-treated clayey soils as well as optimise cement dosage in cement stabilisation to produce a more cost-effective and less environmentalinvasive usage of the technology in geotechnical applications. Keywords Cement type Cement stabilisation Kaolin clay Liquid limit Sand gradation Unconfined compression test
1 Introduction 1.1 Background Land reclamation has conventionally been carried out with sand as the primary fill material. With the huge amount of excavated soils generated from subterranean construction and sea dredging, there are enormous benefits to reuse & S. C. Chian [email protected] 1
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, S
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