Experimental Study on Flexural Testing of Compacted Soil Beams
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Experimental Study on Flexural Testing of Compacted Soil Beams
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Creator |
VISWANADHAM, BVS
JHA, BK PAWAR, SN |
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lightly cemented sand
tensile-strength clay liners settlement behavior waste |
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Description |
This paper presents an experimental study on flexural testing of three different types of soils molded at three different water contents and two different compaction energies. For this purpose, a custom designed simple beam test setup was developed in the laboratory for inducing the controlled pure bending to the soil under evaluation together with a charged coupled device video camera mounted on to a moving triaxial base plate. Based on the analysis and interpretation of bending moment (BM)-curvature (kappa) relationships of tested soil beams, effects of soil type, molding water content, and compaction energy on the flexural behavior could be obtained. For the varied molding water contents and for the range of plasticity indices varied, with an increase in plasticity index of the soil and molding water content, a trend of increasing tensile strain at crack initiation was observed. In comparison, flexural tensile strength at crack initiation was observed to decrease with an increase in molding water content. Further, flexural rigidity at crack initiation was found to be higher for soils having low plasticity index and moist compacted at low-molding water contents. The developed test setup is capable of inducing distortion levels of 0.105 and can be useful in assessing flexural characteristics of different types of fine-grained soils.
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ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS
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Date |
2011-07-18T11:49:29Z
2011-12-26T12:50:36Z 2011-12-27T05:36:13Z 2011-07-18T11:49:29Z 2011-12-26T12:50:36Z 2011-12-27T05:36:13Z 2010 |
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Article
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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING, 22(5), 460-468
0899-1561 http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0000045 http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/4906 http://hdl.handle.net/10054/4906 |
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en
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