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Experimental study on the electrical resistivity of soil–cement admixtures

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Recently in China, soil–cement is widely used to improve the soft ground in the highway construction engineering. Literature studies are mainly investigating the mechanical properties of the soil–cement, while its properties of the electrical resistivity are not well addressed. In this paper, the properties of the electrical resistivity of the reconstituted soil-cement and the in situ soil–cement columns are investigated. The test results show that the electrical resistivity of the soil–cement increases with the increase in the cement-mixing ratio and curing time, whereas it decreases with the increase in the water content, degree of saturation and water–cement ratio. A simple equation is proposed to predict the electrical resistivity of soil–cement under the condition of the specified curing time and water–cement ratio. It is found that the electrical resistivity has a good relationship with the unconfined compression strength and blow count of SPT. It is expected that the electrical resistivity method can be widely used for checking/controlling the quality of soil–cement in practice.

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This study is part of the Project titled “On the electrical resistivity characteristics of structural Soils” financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No. 50478073,2005–2007). The authors highly appreciate Dr. A. Sridharan, Professor Emeritus, Indian Institute of Science, for his comments and discussions during the preparation of this paper.

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  1. Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, Jiangsu, China

    Song Yu Liu, Yan Jun Du, L. H. Han & M. F. Gu

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Liu, S.Y., Du, Y.J., Han, L.H. et al. Experimental study on the electrical resistivity of soil–cement admixtures. Environ Geol 54, 1227–1233 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00254-007-0905-5

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