Shear test on reinforced clayey sand

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. sand composite). A series of laboratory direct shear tests carried out to eval...

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Main Authors: Chegenizadeh, Amin, Nikraz, Hamid
Other Authors: Unknown
Format: Conference Paper
Published: WASET 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22001
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author Chegenizadeh, Amin
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. sand composite). A series of laboratory direct shear tests carried out to evaluate fiber effect on strength behavior of composite sand. Clayey sand was selected as soil part of the composite and natural fiber was used as reinforcement. The fiber parameters differed from one test to another, as fiber length were changed from 10 mm to 35 mm and fiber content were varied from 0.6% and 3%. Normal stress kept constant at 100 kpa. For each test, stress_ displacement graph derived and the results were compared. The results proved that inclusion of fiber affected strength behaviour of sand composite so that increasing in fiber content and length caused increasing in shear stress.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-220012017-01-30T12:28:42Z Shear test on reinforced clayey sand Chegenizadeh, Amin Nikraz, Hamid Unknown sand direct shear reinforced fiber 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. sand composite). A series of laboratory direct shear tests carried out to evaluate fiber effect on strength behavior of composite sand. Clayey sand was selected as soil part of the composite and natural fiber was used as reinforcement. The fiber parameters differed from one test to another, as fiber length were changed from 10 mm to 35 mm and fiber content were varied from 0.6% and 3%. Normal stress kept constant at 100 kpa. For each test, stress_ displacement graph derived and the results were compared. The results proved that inclusion of fiber affected strength behaviour of sand composite so that increasing in fiber content and length caused increasing in shear stress. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22001 WASET fulltext
spellingShingle sand
direct shear
reinforced
fiber
Chegenizadeh, Amin
Nikraz, Hamid
Shear test on reinforced clayey sand
title Shear test on reinforced clayey sand
title_full Shear test on reinforced clayey sand
title_fullStr Shear test on reinforced clayey sand
title_full_unstemmed Shear test on reinforced clayey sand
title_short Shear test on reinforced clayey sand
title_sort shear test on reinforced clayey sand
topic sand
direct shear
reinforced
fiber
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22001