Open AccessCompressibility Characteristics of Soft Clays Treated by Graphene Oxide
Author(s) -
Mahmood R. Mahmood,
Sinan A. Al-Haddad,
Mohammed Y. Fattah
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
xi'nan jiaotong daxue xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 21
ISSN - 0258-2724
DOI - 10.35741/issn.0258-2724.56.1.35
Subject(s) - graphene , materials science , oxide , consolidation (business) , compressibility , composite material , swelling , cementitious , nanotechnology , thermodynamics , metallurgy , cement , business , physics , accounting
Changing the soft soils' characteristics is difficult by directly incorporating Graphene oxide due to underlying soil properties. Therefore the stability of treated soils used for cementitious materials can be improved by treatment with Graphene oxide. Consistency and compression tests were used to study the mechanical behavior of the new compound Graphene mixture from fine, stable Graphene oxide. The soft clay used in this study has a shear strength of 33.0 kPa. It was stabilized with 0.1% Graphene oxide and cured for one day and some samples for seven days. It was concluded that the void ratio decreased with the addition of Graphene oxide under a given consolidation pressure. The other soil properties: swelling potential, coefficient of volume compressibility (mv), and coefficient of consolidation (Cv) decrease with increasing Graphene oxide under curing periods.