EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE SENSITIVITY TO COMPACTION OF LOOSE MATERIALS AS A FUNCTION OF THE PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION

ETUDE EXPERIMENTALE DE LA SENSIBILITE AU COMPACTAGE DE MATERIAUX MEUBLES EN FONCTION DE LEUR COMPOSITION GRANULOMETRIQUE.

THE STUDY OF THE SENSITIVITY OF SOIL TO COMPACTION WAS CARRIED OUT IN THE LABORATORY IN CLAY (KAOLINITE) AND SAND MIXTURES. TWO SPECIMENS WERE PREPARED FROM EACH MIXTURE BY DIFFERENT METHODS: SOME WERE MIXED MANUALLY, SOME WERE BROUGHT UP TO OPTIMUM PROCTOR. THE INFLUENCE OF THESE TWO METHODS WAS EVALUATED BY DETERMINING THE APPARENT DRY DENSITY OF THE SAMPLE AND THE POROSITY OF THE PARTICLES IN THE SOIL SKELETON. THE MEASURED DATA WERE COMPARED TO THOSE CALCULATED BY MEANS OF A THEORETICAL MODEL OF THE DISPOSITION OF THE PARTICLES IN THE SAMPLES. THE COMPARISON SHOWED THAT IN A MATERIAL WHERE THE CLAY CONTENT INCREASES THE SENSITIVITY TO COMPACTION (VERY MARKED FOR MIXTURES POOR IN CLAY) DECREASES IN SAMPLES CONTAINING AN AVERAGE AMOUNT OF CLAY AND DISAPEARS WHEN THE MATERIAL CONTAINS A HIGH PROPORTION OF CLAY (30%). /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

  Route de Saint Cyr
  Versailles 78000,   France 
• Authors:
  • Faure, A
  • Fies, J C
• Publication Date: 1972

Language

• French

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 317-32
• Serial:
  • Annales Agronomiques
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue Number: 3

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Clay; Dry density; Kaolinite; Mixtures; Porosity; Proportioning; Sand; Soil compaction; Soil compaction test; Soils
• Uncontrolled Terms: Proctor compaction test
• Old TRIS Terms: Dry density (Soils)
• ITRD Terms: 4177: Clay; 3686: Compaction; 5908: Density; 213: Energy; 4189: Kaolinite; 6237: Laboratory (not an organization); 4714: Mix design; 3649: Mixer; 6205: Model (not math); 6200: Particle size distribution; 5938: Porosity; 6270: Proctor; 6251: Sample (mater); 4105: Sand; 5928: Sensitivity; 4156: Soil
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00081695
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 27 1975 12:00AM