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INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND INNOVATION SYMPOSIUM (IRIS)
Volume 160, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/160/1/012058
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Reconstituted peat; using triaxial consolidated undrained (CU-Test); undrained shear strength; preconsolidation pressure; cohesion; angle of friction
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Shear strength of soil is required to determine the soil stability and design the foundations. Peat is known as a soil with complex natural formations which also contributes problems to the researchers, developers, engineers and contractors in constructions and infrastructures. Most researchers conducted experiment and investigation of shear strength on peat using shear box test and simple shear test, but only a few had discovered the behavior of peat using triaxial consolidated undrained test. The aim of this paper is to determine the undrained shear strength properties of reconstituted peat and undisturbed peat of Parit Nipah, Johor for comparison purposes. All the reconstituted peat samples were formed with the size that passed opening sieve 3.35 mm and preconsolidation pressure at 100 kPa. The result of undrained shear strength of reconstituted peat was 21kPa for cohesion with the angle of friction, 41 degrees compare to the undisturbed peat with cohesion 10 kPa and angle of friction, 16 degrees. The undrained shear strength properties result obtained shows that the reconstituted peat has higher strength than undisturbed peat. For relationship deviator stress-strain, sigma(d)(max) and excess pore pressure, Delta u it shows that both of undisturbed and reconstituted gradually increased when sigma' increased, but at the end of the test, the values are slightly dropped. The physical properties of undisturbed and reconstituted peat were also investigated to correlate with the undrained shear strength results.
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