Cement-Treated Soil: Variation of UCS

with Soil Type

Presented by: Emilie Lapointe
February 18th, 2012

Deep-Mixing Project: Lillooet, BC, Canada

Field Trial for

Landslide
Remediation;

Design Specs. of
2 MPa
@ t = 14 days;

Mix Design by
contractor.

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Highway 99

Fraser River

Approximate Location
and Direction of
Fountain Slide

Bench-Scale Testing to

inform mix design

required
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Laboratory Mix Design Testing

Reconstitution method

Water/Cement ratio

Soil Type

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BST Reconstitution Methods

Unsaturated Specimen

eg.:
Lewsley and Fannin (2011)

eg.:
CDIT (2002)
Hodges et al. (2008)
ASTM D1632-07
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Saturated Specimen

Reconstitution by Wet-Mixing (Saturated)

Lewsley and Fannin, ASTM G.T.J. (2011)

UCS Database:

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4 soils (sand:fines @ 25:75 90:10);

1.3 < (w/c)f < 5.8;
t = 7, 14, 28 and 56 days

Saturated Specimens: UCS Data

Reproduced from Lewsley (2008)

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Similar findings @ t =7, 14 and 56 days.

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Saturated Specimens: UCS Data

New Data:

2 site soils
(40S:60F 60S:40F);

1.3 < (w/c)f < 5.8;

t = 7, 14, 28 and 56 days.

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Saturated Specimens: UCS Data

qu appears
mostly
independent of
soil type
(for a mix of sand and
non-plastic fines)

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Reconstitution by Dry-Mixing (Unsaturated)

Coastal Development
Institute of Technology
[CDIT] (2002)

New Data:

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1 site soil
(sand:fines @ 60:40);
1.5 < (w/c)f < 5.3;
t = 14 days.

Unsaturated Specimens: UCS Data

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qu appears
independent of
the reconstitution
method

Comparison with the Work of Others

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UBC Study:
6 soils in total;
2 reconstitution
methods.
Other Studies:
3 additional
soils;
2 more different
reconstitution
methods.

Concluding Remarks

Soil Type;

Reconstitution method;

Water/Cement ratio.

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qu appears largely
independent of the soil
type;
qu appears independent
of the method of
reconstitution;
qu appears largely
sensitive to (w/c)t < 3.

Thank You!
Acknowledgments:
Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of Canada,
Industrial Post-Graduate
Scholarship;

Golder Associates Ltd.

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