Quality assessment and quality control of deep soil mixing construction for stabilizing expansive subsoils

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 119-128

  Madhyannapu, Raja Sekhar ^a   Puppala, Anand J ^a   Nazarian, Soheil ^b   Yuan, Deren ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b University of Texas at El Paso   (United States)

Author keywords

Cement; Expansive soils; Lime; Nondestructive tests; Quality control; Shear modulus; Soil mixing

Indexed keywords

EXPANSIVE SOILS; NON-DESTRUCTIVE TEST; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTS; SHEAR MODULUS; SOIL MIXING;

ALUMINA; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; HYDRATES; LABORATORIES; LIME; MIXING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEISMOLOGY; SILICA; SOIL CEMENT; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; STIFFNESS; SURFACE WAVES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CEMENT; DEEP MIXING METHOD; EXPANSIVE SOIL; IN SITU TEST; LIME; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING; QUALITY CONTROL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHEAR MODULUS; SOIL STABILIZATION; SUBSOIL; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 76049121026     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0000188     Document Type: Article

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