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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
Volume 29, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0001849
Keywords
Cemented clay; Dredged clay; Super-absorbent polymer; Undrained shear; High water content
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [41502263, 51578213, 51608312]
- National Key Technology Research and Development Program of China [2015BAB07B06]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK2015040806]
- Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China [2016M600396]
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A series of isotropically consolidated undrained triaxial tests were performed on cemented clay with super-absorbent polymer (SAP) at high water content to investigate the effect of SAP content on the undrained shear behavior of cemented clay. The test results reveal that the compressibility and undrained shear strength of cemented clay with SAP in a preyield state are independent of the confining pressure. When the confining pressure is higher than the yield stress, the compressibility of the cemented clay with SAP increases dramatically. Meanwhile, the undrained shear strength of the cemented clay with SAP depends on the confining stress in the postyield state. The yield stress measured from the isotropic compression test is consistent with the transitional stress from the bilinear relation between the peak deviator stress and the confining pressure. For certain lime content, the role of SAP is to increase the cementation bond. Hence, the peak deviator stress increases with the increasing SAP content, lime content, and curing time. However, the cementation is shown to have no effect on pore pressure generation within the degree of cementation considered in this study. The linear failure envelope of the cemented clay with SAP is observed for the range of applied stress level in this study and is bounded by the tension cut-off and the critical state line of untreated clay. The difference between the failure line of cemented clay and the critical state line of untreated clay increase with the degree of the cementation bond (i.e.,higher SAP content, higher lime content, and longer curing time).
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