The compression and strength characteristics of soils were examined in relation to the presence of isolated solid inclusions. Investigations were carried out on samples of kaolin with solid inclusions of angular crushed basalt and steel ball bearings (to represent rounded particles). The presence of solid inclusions was found to have a significant effect on the compression and strength characteristics of these composite soils and it is postulated that this behaviour is related to the formation of strong arches between the individual solid inclusions. This phenomenon was found to be subdued when the surface of the solid inclusion was smooth, suggesting that particle shape also has a considerable influence on the mechanical behaviour of composite materials.
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Behaviour of normally consolidated clay containing isolated solid inclusions Available to Purchase
Vinayagamoorthy Sivakumar, BSc, MSc, DIC, PhD, PGCHET, DSc, CEng, FICE;
Vinayagamoorthy Sivakumar, BSc, MSc, DIC, PhD, PGCHET, DSc, CEng, FICE
Reader in Geotechnical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK (corresponding author: v.sivakumar@qub.ac.uk)
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Shane Donohue, BSc, PhD, FHEA;
Shane Donohue, BSc, PhD, FHEA
Associate Professor, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Laura Rødvand, MEng;
Laura Rødvand, MEng
PhD candidate, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
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Satyajeet Nanda, PhD;
Satyajeet Nanda, PhD
Assistant Professor, KIIT Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India
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Snehasis Tripathy, PhD
Snehasis Tripathy, PhD
Reader, School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Received:
July 09 2017
Accepted:
March 09 2018
Online ISSN: 1751-8563
Print ISSN: 1353-2618
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2018
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering (2018) 171 (4): 345–356.
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July 09 2017
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Sivakumar V, Donohue S, Rødvand L, Nanda S, Tripathy S (2018), "Behaviour of normally consolidated clay containing isolated solid inclusions". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 171 No. 4 pp. 345–356, doi: https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeen.17.00131
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