Cutter Soil Mixing (CSM) is a recently developed deep mixing technique that has grown
to include the treatment of sandy and silty soils. This study seeks to investigate the influence of
(i) sand-silt ratio, (ii) cement content, (iii) water content and (iv) time on the unconfined
compressive strength of saturated cement-treated soil specimens. A new test device and method
of specimen reconstitution were conceived in order to obtain a saturated mix of soil and cement.
A comparison of results show strength increases non-linearly to decreasing total water-cement
ratio, and that this trend is largely independent of sand-silt ratio. Furthermore, strength increases
non-linearly with time and is independent of sand-silt ratio. Lastly, it is recommended that the
strength be correlated with total water-cement ratio rather than cement content, in order to
improve data reporting and provide design guidance to engineering practice. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Civil Engineering, Department of / Graduate
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/4175 |
Date | 11 1900 |
Creators | Lewsley, Gregory |
Publisher | University of British Columbia |
Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
Format | 2473932 bytes, application/pdf |
Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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