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Undrained Triaxial Behavior of Cement Treated Marine Clay

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Clays treated with lower cement contents often exhibit behaviour similar to stiff clays with planar failure surface under triaxial compression. In the present work the behaviour of a marine clay treated with 5 % cement, subjected to undrained triaxial compression tests is studied. The pre-consolidation pressure of the cemented clay due to the cementation bonding is observed to be very high. It is attempted to model the behaviour of cement treated clay using a bounding surface plasticity formulation as the plastic behaviour of the cemented clays within the yield surface has to be considered. The effect of cementation is included in the model as the pre-consolidation pressure obtained from consolidation tests. The tensile strength due to cementation bonds is included in the equation of the bounding surface. Simulations of the undrained triaxial compression tests on cemented clays are carried out and the results are validated with the experimental results.

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  1. Civil Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, 600036, India

    Rakesh J. Pillai, I. Bushra & R. G. Robinson

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Pillai, R.J., Bushra, I. & Robinson, R.G. Undrained Triaxial Behavior of Cement Treated Marine Clay. Geotech Geol Eng 31, 801–808 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-012-9605-3

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