Soil and geosynthetic fibre: Unconfined compressive strength test

Composite soils have been widely used in civil engineering applications, especially in slopes, embankment dam and landfills. This paper aims to investigate effect of fibre inclusion on Unconfined Compressive Strength of composite soil (i.e., clay composite). A series of laboratory Unconfined Compres...

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Main Authors: Chegenizadeh, Amin, Nikraz, H.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6195
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Nikraz, H.
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Nikraz, H.
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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 fibre inclusion on Unconfined Compressive Strength of composite soil (i.e., clay composite). A series of laboratory Unconfined Compression tests carried out to evaluate fibre effect on strength behavior of composite clay. Kaolin clay was selected as soil part of the composite and plastic fibre was used as reinforcement. The fibre parameters differed from one test to another, as fibre length were changed from 10 mm to 30 mm and fibre content were selected as 1% to 3%. For each test, stress strain graph derived and the results were compared. The results proved that inclusion of fibre affected strength behaviour of clay composite so that increasing in fibre content and length caused increasing in Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS).
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-61952017-09-13T14:41:39Z Soil and geosynthetic fibre: Unconfined compressive strength test Chegenizadeh, Amin Nikraz, H. Composite soils have been widely used in civil engineering applications, especially in slopes, embankment dam and landfills. This paper aims to investigate effect of fibre inclusion on Unconfined Compressive Strength of composite soil (i.e., clay composite). A series of laboratory Unconfined Compression tests carried out to evaluate fibre effect on strength behavior of composite clay. Kaolin clay was selected as soil part of the composite and plastic fibre was used as reinforcement. The fibre parameters differed from one test to another, as fibre length were changed from 10 mm to 30 mm and fibre content were selected as 1% to 3%. For each test, stress strain graph derived and the results were compared. The results proved that inclusion of fibre affected strength behaviour of clay composite so that increasing in fibre content and length caused increasing in Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS). 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6195 10.1166/asl.2013.5178 restricted
spellingShingle Chegenizadeh, Amin
Nikraz, H.
Soil and geosynthetic fibre: Unconfined compressive strength test
title Soil and geosynthetic fibre: Unconfined compressive strength test
title_full Soil and geosynthetic fibre: Unconfined compressive strength test
title_fullStr Soil and geosynthetic fibre: Unconfined compressive strength test
title_full_unstemmed Soil and geosynthetic fibre: Unconfined compressive strength test
title_short Soil and geosynthetic fibre: Unconfined compressive strength test
title_sort soil and geosynthetic fibre: unconfined compressive strength test
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6195