Waste paper application in Geotechnical Project

Composite soils have been widely used in civil engineering applications, especially in slopes, embankment dam and landfills. This paper aims to investigate effect of fiber inclusion on shear stress of composite soil (i.e. clay composite). A series of laboratory direct shear tests carried out to eval...

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Main Authors: Chegenizadeh, Amin, Nikraz, Hamid
Format: Journal Article
Published: Trans Tech Publications Inc 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15158
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Nikraz, Hamid
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Nikraz, Hamid
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description Composite soils have been widely used in civil engineering applications, especially in slopes, embankment dam and landfills. This paper aims to investigate effect of fiber inclusion on shear stress of composite soil (i.e. clay composite). A series of laboratory direct shear tests carried out to evaluate paper reinforcement effect on strength behavior of composite clay. Kaolin clay was selected as soil part of the composite and paper was used as reinforcement. The paper reinforcement parameters differed from one test to another, the paper length was changed from 10 mm to 30 mm and paper content were varied from 5% to 15%. Normal stress kept constant at 150 kPa. For each test, stress_ displacement graph derived and the results were compared. The results proved that inclusion of paper reinforcement affected strength behaviour of clay composite so that increasing in paper reinforcement content and length caused increasing in shear stress.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-151582017-09-13T15:53:17Z Waste paper application in Geotechnical Project Chegenizadeh, Amin Nikraz, Hamid Paper reinforcement Clay Reinforced Direct shear Composite soils have been widely used in civil engineering applications, especially in slopes, embankment dam and landfills. This paper aims to investigate effect of fiber inclusion on shear stress of composite soil (i.e. clay composite). A series of laboratory direct shear tests carried out to evaluate paper reinforcement effect on strength behavior of composite clay. Kaolin clay was selected as soil part of the composite and paper was used as reinforcement. The paper reinforcement parameters differed from one test to another, the paper length was changed from 10 mm to 30 mm and paper content were varied from 5% to 15%. Normal stress kept constant at 150 kPa. For each test, stress_ displacement graph derived and the results were compared. The results proved that inclusion of paper reinforcement affected strength behaviour of clay composite so that increasing in paper reinforcement content and length caused increasing in shear stress. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15158 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.535-537.2148 Trans Tech Publications Inc restricted
spellingShingle Paper reinforcement
Clay
Reinforced
Direct shear
Chegenizadeh, Amin
Nikraz, Hamid
Waste paper application in Geotechnical Project
title Waste paper application in Geotechnical Project
title_full Waste paper application in Geotechnical Project
title_fullStr Waste paper application in Geotechnical Project
title_full_unstemmed Waste paper application in Geotechnical Project
title_short Waste paper application in Geotechnical Project
title_sort waste paper application in geotechnical project
topic Paper reinforcement
Clay
Reinforced
Direct shear
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15158