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Toyama Prefecture has a thriving fishing and forestry industry, which generates a large amount of waste biomass in the manufacturing process. The authors have considered if we could make effective use of these biomass instead of throwing it away. Specifically, the authors have considered if we could make effective use of snow crab shells and Moso bamboo as recycled materials. On the other hand, as large earthquakes often occur in Japan, it is necessary to investigate the dynamic behavior of the biomass-mixed soil under earthquake conditions before it can actually be used. Therefore, the authors carried out the cyclic undrained triaxial test on soil in this study using a mixture of 10 and 20% of these biomasses by mass in the soil as it was mixed. The results showed that adding bamboo and crab powder to the masa soil increased the liquefaction strength. However, the liquefaction strength decreased as the mixing ratio of biomass increased. The author also considered that the reason for the increase in liquefaction strength was due to the shape and skeleton of the biomass and made microscopic observations using a SEM. The results showed that the biomass contained a large number of large and small fibrous T-bamboos and crab shells with rough and sharp H-surfaces. This is thought to have increased the stickiness of the material and made it more difficult to liquefy.
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This research was partly funded by grants from Uchiyama Sakusen Kogyo K.K. and Otani Steel Co. Ltd. and Otani Steel Corporation, and a grant from the Toyama Daiichi Bank Scholarship Foundation. In carrying out this research, we would like to thank Washi North Seafood processing and Nishino Shinjuen for providing us with materials. Mr. Kakegawa of Chuo Kaihatsu K.K. and Prof. Wakisaka of Toyama Prefectural University gave us generous guidance on the loan of equipment and its use. We have appreciated them.
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Yoshizaki, T. et al. (2024). Effects of Biomass Soil Mixture on Dynamic Behavior. In: Hazarika, H., Haigh, S.K., Chaudhary, B., Murai, M., Manandhar, S. (eds) Sustainable Construction Resources in Geotechnical Engineering. IC-CREST 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 448. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9227-0_40
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