Estudo das características de compressibilidade unidimensional e plasticidade de misturas de argila e areia

Abstract

Most theories in geotechnical engineering have been proposed and are applied to pure clay and clean sand and not deal with problems involving soil mixtures. However, due to variability of soil found in nature, there is essential for more knowledge of geotechnical properties of mixtures of clay and sand. This study collected published research about geotechnical behavior of mixtures of clay and sand to evaluate experimental results using the normalization proposed by Castello and Polido (1994). These equations quantify the influence of sandy fractions in plasticity and one-dimensional compressibility of clay and sand mixtures with different fractions on the total mass of the dry mixture. And, these equations have been proposed for clays with "same sandy", where compression occurs exclusively in the clay matrix, in a practically uniform and without stress concentration. The results of onecompression dimensional tests, molded into samples in the laboratory for different mixtures of clay and sand, evaluated in this study, indicates a linear relationship between the values of index compression primary and the fraction of fines in mixtures with clay and sand in percentages over 20% clay. The same tendency was observed in the variation of the Atterberg limits with the fraction of fines in different mixtures of clay and sand, since these index properties are correlated with the compressibility of the fines soil. In this case, the identification clays with "same sandy" are valid and the sandy fraction can be considered inert in the mixture of clay and sand. Is also studied in this work, the correlations published in the literature of values of Atterberg limits and the relative values of index compression primary to different mixtures of clayey soils.