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Design and Construction of a Piled Mountain with Engineered Municipal Construction Waste over Soft Clay

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The deformation mechanism of engineered municipal construction waste (EMCW) is complicated and different from that of the traditional soil. A series of field tests and field measurements were performed on the piled mountain project to investigate the deformation characteristics of EMCW during the construction waste accumulation. Experimental studies revealed that EMCW was defined as a kind of heterogeneous soil with well-graded soil. The coefficients of uniformity were all greater than 10, while the coefficients of curvature were between 1 and 3. The permeability had approximately the same performance as the sandy gravel did. The field test results showed EMCW had the characteristics of small deformation and the time effect of loading. The p–s curves indicated that the bearing capacity of construction waste improved after 1 year’s filling. These phenomena were mostly caused by the complexity, diversity, and inhomogeneity of EMCW. According to the proposed control standards of settlement and lateral deformation, as a method of foundation treatment, EMCW was an effective way to build a large piled mountain on soft soil foundation.

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The work described in this paper was funded by the Project (51378344) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China; Project (14JCYBJC21700) supported by the Tianjin Municipal Natural Science Foundation; Project (27) supported by the Tianjin Construction Committee Science and Technology Commission Foundation. Interactions with our other research collaborators, Dr. Hongqi Li, Zirui Wan, and Jijun Li were invaluable. The writers would like also to thank Wenzhen Zhang, Li Chen, Xuechao Wang and Jingjin Liu of Tianjin University for their help in the arrangement of field investigation data.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China

    Hua-yang Lei & Hai-bin Lu

  2. Key Laboratory of Coast Civil Structure Safety of Education Ministry, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China

    Hua-yang Lei

  3. Tianjin Institute of Geological Survey, Tianjin, 300191, China

    Jin-wu Bai

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Lei, Hy., Lu, Hb. & Bai, Jw. Design and Construction of a Piled Mountain with Engineered Municipal Construction Waste over Soft Clay. Geotech Geol Eng 35, 1341–1356 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-017-0180-5

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