<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article presents the results of experimental work carried out both in situ (coring; pressuremeter test) and in the laboratory (drying-wetting and oedometric tests) to describe the volumetric behavior on drying-wetting path of a swelling clayey soil of eastern Algeria. In order to perform drying-wetting tests the osmotic technique and saturated salts solutions were used. These suction-imposed methods have gained widespread acceptance as reliable methods for imposing suction on soil specimens. They allowed to sweep a wide range of suctions between 0 and 500 MPa. The ability to impose suction on soil specimens allows for drying and wetting stress paths to be applied to evaluate resulting changes in state parameters (void ratio, degree of saturation and water content). These paths were carried out on specimens with different initial states. Slurries of soil were used to characterize the reference behavior, while the undisturbed soil samples allow to describe the behavior of material under in situ conditions. In the last part of this article and to specify the behavior observed in the saturated domain, a comparison between the resulting deformations of the drying-wetting test and those resulting from the oedometric test was made.</p></abstract>

This article presents the results of experimental work carried out both in situ (coring; pressuremeter test) and in the laboratory (drying-wetting and oedometric tests) to describe the volumetric behavior on drying-wetting path of a swelling clayey soil of eastern Algeria. In order to perform drying-wetting tests the osmotic technique and saturated salts solutions were used. These suction-imposed methods have gained widespread acceptance as reliable methods for imposing suction on soil specimens. They allowed to sweep a wide range of suctions between 0 and 500 MPa. The ability to impose suction on soil specimens allows for drying and wetting stress paths to be applied to evaluate resulting changes in state parameters (void ratio, degree of saturation and water content). These paths were carried out on specimens with different initial states. Slurries of soil were used to characterize the reference behavior, while the undisturbed soil samples allow to describe the behavior of material under in situ conditions. In the last part of this article and to specify the behavior observed in the saturated domain, a comparison between the resulting deformations of the drying-wetting test and those resulting from the oedometric test was made.

Volumetric behavior of natural swelling soil on drying-wetting paths. Application to the Boumagueur marl -Algeria-

Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Technology

Department of Hydraulic and Civil Engineering

Studia Geotechnica et Mechanica

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This article presents the results of experimental work carried out both in situ (coring; pressuremeter test) and in the laboratory (drying-wetting and...

Volumetric behavior of natural swelling soil on drying-wetting paths. Application to the Boumagueur marl -Algeria-

Article Category: Research Article

Published Online: Apr 29, 2020

Page range: 248 - 262

Received: Nov 01, 2019

Accepted: Feb 22, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sgem-2019-0042

Keywords
Suction, Shrinkage, Swelling, drying-wetting, undisturbed soil, slurry, volumetric behavior

© 2020 Mehdi Mebarki et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Volumetric behavior of natural swelling soil on drying-wetting paths. Application to the Boumagueur marl -Algeria-

Article Category: Research Article

Published Online: Apr 29, 2020

Page range: 248 - 262

Received: Nov 01, 2019

Accepted: Feb 22, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sgem-2019-0042

KeywordsSuction, Shrinkage, Swelling, drying-wetting, undisturbed soil, slurry, volumetric behavior

© 2020 Mehdi Mebarki et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Suction, Shrinkage, Swelling, drying-wetting, undisturbed soil, slurry, volumetric behavior