Damage Behavior of Cement-Treated Base Material

Curing Time Effect on Behavior of Cement Treated Marine Clay

Cement stabilization has been widely used for improving the strength and stiffness of soft clayey soils. Cement treated soil specimens used to investigate the stress-strain behaviour in the laboratory study are usually cured for 7 days. This paper examines the effects of curing time on the strength and stress strain behaviour of cement treated marine clay under triaxial loading condition. Labor...

Experimental Studies on Treated Sub-base Soil with Fly Ash and Cement for Sustainable Design Recommendations

The pavement constructions on soft and expansive soils are not durable and unable to sustain heavy traffic loading. As a result, pavement failures and settlement problems will occur very often even under light traffic loading due to cyclic and rolling effects. Geotechnical engineers have dwelled deeply into this matter, and adopt various methods to improve the engineering characteristics of sof...

Effect of embedded steel on the compressive damage behavior of cement mortar

Steel embedded in cement mortar in the uniaxial compressive stress direction was found to decrease by 80% the compressive longitudinal strain at a given stress and increase by 300% the tensile transverse strain at a given longitudinal strain. The former effect is due to longitudinal confinement of mortar by steel. The latter is due to debonding at the steel-mortar interface. © 1999 Elsevier Sci...

Fuzzy Controller for Cement Raw Material Blending

A Study of the Wear Behavior of a Rail Material

The rail track is one of the most important elements of a railway system. During the passage of trains, the rails are subjected to contact load that comes from the wheels of the train.  The railway track often fails in service due to wear caused by contact fatigue and other wear damage mechanisms that could also limit the life span of the railway infrastructure and railway vehicle. The aim of t...