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Sustainable Stabilization of Fine-grained Soils Against Desiccation - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Sustainable Stabilization of Fine-grained Soils Against Desiccation - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Sustainable Stabilization of Fine-grained Soils Against Desiccation Induced Cracking CE 488 Environmental Geotechnics Lecture 12 3 ?? Soil Stabilization Mechanical Soil replacement Availability? Compaction/Consolidation
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Soil Stabilization
- Mechanical
- Soil replacement
- Compaction/Consolidation
- Chemical
- Lime
- Cement
- Chemicals/fibers
Availability? Execution? Greenhouse gases? Geoenvironment contamination? Depletion of natural resources?
Sustainable solution: Industrial by-products ‘Man-made resources’
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Sustainable development: Synthetic soils
Geoenvironment Mining Industrial activity Industrial by- products Processing of by-products Ground modification/ improvement
Sustainable Development
Potential and active Processing 5
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Advanced Characterization
- Physical- PSD, G, SSA, SWCC
- Chemical- XRF, CEC, Lime reactivity, pH
- Mineralogical- XRD
- Morphological- SEM, Image analysis
- Micro-structural- MIP, Impedance spectroscopy