Laboratory procedure to obtain well-mixed soil binder samples of medium stiff to stiff expansive clayey soil for deep soil mixing simulation

Geotechnical Testing Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 225-238

  Bhadriraju, Venkat ^a   Puppala, Anand J ^a   Madhyannapu, Raja Sekhar ^a   Williammee, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b Fort Worth Dialysis Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep soil mixing; Expansive soils; Ground improvement; Quality control; Shear modulus; Shear wave velocity; Shrinkage; Swell

Indexed keywords

DEEP SOIL MIXING; EXPANSIVE SOILS; GROUND IMPROVEMENT; SHEAR MODULUS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SWELL; CLAYEY SOILS; LABORATORY PROCEDURES; LIME CEMENT; MIXED SOILS; NATURAL CLAYS;

BINDERS; CLAY MINERALS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; LABORATORIES; MIXING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; SOILS; SPECIMEN PREPARATION; TESTING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; ELASTIC MODULI; LIME; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; SOIL CEMENT; SOIL TESTING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

SOIL TESTING; BINDERS;

CHEMICAL METHOD; CLAY SOIL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPANSIVE SOIL; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTY; LABORATORY METHOD; MIXING; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL STABILIZATION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 54949141811     PISSN: 01496115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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