The Standard Penetration Test (SPT), widely used in Brazil, provides reference data to geotechnical projects. The data obtained are punctual and often dispersed due to its execution, that is, there is no concern in gathering and analyzing such information jointly for a specific region.... View Article
This paper optimizes and compares the behavior of soil-cement compacted blends against several molding and climate conditions under optimum compaction and non-optimum compaction parameters. For this, an intensive laboratory study of silty soil samples treated with different percentages of high early strength Portland cement (PC) was investigated by a se...
View ArticleA constitutive model is proposed for describing the stress-strain behavior of saturated residual soils based on experimental observations from oedometer testing, triaxial and direct shear testing. The model is formulated within the classical theory of plasticity with a non-associated flow rule. In order to reproduce particular features of residual soils...
View ArticleRegular soil improvement techniques customarily involve the use of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) despite the environmental issues related to the production process of such material. Hence, the establishment of alternative binders through the use of industrial and/or urban waste might be an option to overcome part of those problems. For this, a 2
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