Direct shear test on reinforced clay

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
Other Authors: Cemal Ardil
Format: Conference Paper
Published: WASET 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32946
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author Chegenizadeh, Amin
Nikraz, Hamid
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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. clay composite). A series of laboratory direct shear tests carried out to evaluate fiber effect on strength behavior of composite clay. Clay was selected as soil part of the composite and plastic fiber was used as reinforcement. The fiber parameters differed from one test to another, as fiber length were changed from 10 mm to 40 mm and fiber content were varied from 0.2% and 1%. 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 shear stress behaviour of clay composite so that increasing in fiber content and length caused increasing in shear stress.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-329462017-12-01T01:44:32Z Direct shear test on reinforced clay Chegenizadeh, Amin Nikraz, Hamid Cemal Ardil clay 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. clay composite). A series of laboratory direct shear tests carried out to evaluate fiber effect on strength behavior of composite clay. Clay was selected as soil part of the composite and plastic fiber was used as reinforcement. The fiber parameters differed from one test to another, as fiber length were changed from 10 mm to 40 mm and fiber content were varied from 0.2% and 1%. 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 shear stress behaviour of clay composite so that increasing in fiber content and length caused increasing in shear stress. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32946 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ WASET fulltext
spellingShingle clay
direct shear
reinforced
fiber
Chegenizadeh, Amin
Nikraz, Hamid
Direct shear test on reinforced clay
title Direct shear test on reinforced clay
title_full Direct shear test on reinforced clay
title_fullStr Direct shear test on reinforced clay
title_full_unstemmed Direct shear test on reinforced clay
title_short Direct shear test on reinforced clay
title_sort direct shear test on reinforced clay
topic clay
direct shear
reinforced
fiber
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32946