Automated 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
Format: Journal Article
Published: Trans Tech Publications Inc 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46973
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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. 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 20 mm to 50 mm and fiber content were varied from 0.5% and 6%. Normal stress kept constant at 200 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) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-469732017-01-30T15:30:25Z Automated shear test on reinforced clayey sand Chegenizadeh, Amin Nikraz, Hamid Sand Reinforced Direct shear 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 20 mm to 50 mm and fiber content were varied from 0.5% and 6%. Normal stress kept constant at 200 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) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46973 Trans Tech Publications Inc restricted
spellingShingle Sand
Reinforced
Direct shear
Fiber
Chegenizadeh, Amin
Nikraz, Hamid
Automated shear test on reinforced clayey sand
title Automated shear test on reinforced clayey sand
title_full Automated shear test on reinforced clayey sand
title_fullStr Automated shear test on reinforced clayey sand
title_full_unstemmed Automated shear test on reinforced clayey sand
title_short Automated shear test on reinforced clayey sand
title_sort automated shear test on reinforced clayey sand
topic Sand
Reinforced
Direct shear
Fiber
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46973