Compressive strength behavior of treated marine clay using ordinary portland cement and blast furnace slag

Soft marine clay often treated as a problematic soil with undesirable properties of low bearing capacity, high compressibility and low hydraulic conductivity. In many suggested ground improvement works, mixing of additional binders to the marine clay can increase the strength of the soft marine clay...

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Main Author:	Kuan, Siew Fung
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78660/1/KuanSiewFungMFKA2017.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.786602018-08-29T07:35:42Z Compressive strength behavior of treated marine clay using ordinary portland cement and blast furnace slag 2017-05 Kuan, Siew Fung TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Soft marine clay often treated as a problematic soil with undesirable properties of low bearing capacity, high compressibility and low hydraulic conductivity. In many suggested ground improvement works, mixing of additional binders to the marine clay can increase the strength of the soft marine clay. This research will be focused on the effects of compressive strength of the marine treated clay using ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and ground-granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) by conducting laboratory testing of unconfined compressive strength (UCS) with different curing time. The preliminary tests on the physical and chemical properties of the marine clay was carried out to have a better understanding on the suitability and properties of the marine clay. The marine clay used in this research is collected from Jimah, Port Dickson in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. The samples were tested after a curing period of 7, 14, 28 and 56 days based on two (2) different design mix of slag cement proportion of 0:100 and 70:30. Total of 8%, 11% and 14% binder content to the total weight of samples with water cement ratio of 1.0 were added. From the study, it can be concluded that the strength of the treated marine clay increased with increasing amount of binder content and duration of the curing time. Sample with slag cement proportion of 70:30 have lower strength at early stage but reach higher UCS at later stage when compared with sample with slag cement proportion of 0:100 due to strong pozzolanic reaction of GGBFS. The investigation has shown that GGBFS is a strong bind product that can be used to improve UCS. 2017-05 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78660/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78660/1/KuanSiewFungMFKA2017.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:109564 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering
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spellingShingle	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General) Kuan, Siew Fung Compressive strength behavior of treated marine clay using ordinary portland cement and blast furnace slag
description	Soft marine clay often treated as a problematic soil with undesirable properties of low bearing capacity, high compressibility and low hydraulic conductivity. In many suggested ground improvement works, mixing of additional binders to the marine clay can increase the strength of the soft marine clay. This research will be focused on the effects of compressive strength of the marine treated clay using ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and ground-granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) by conducting laboratory testing of unconfined compressive strength (UCS) with different curing time. The preliminary tests on the physical and chemical properties of the marine clay was carried out to have a better understanding on the suitability and properties of the marine clay. The marine clay used in this research is collected from Jimah, Port Dickson in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. The samples were tested after a curing period of 7, 14, 28 and 56 days based on two (2) different design mix of slag cement proportion of 0:100 and 70:30. Total of 8%, 11% and 14% binder content to the total weight of samples with water cement ratio of 1.0 were added. From the study, it can be concluded that the strength of the treated marine clay increased with increasing amount of binder content and duration of the curing time. Sample with slag cement proportion of 70:30 have lower strength at early stage but reach higher UCS at later stage when compared with sample with slag cement proportion of 0:100 due to strong pozzolanic reaction of GGBFS. The investigation has shown that GGBFS is a strong bind product that can be used to improve UCS.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Kuan, Siew Fung
author_facet	Kuan, Siew Fung
author_sort	Kuan, Siew Fung
title	Compressive strength behavior of treated marine clay using ordinary portland cement and blast furnace slag
title_short	Compressive strength behavior of treated marine clay using ordinary portland cement and blast furnace slag
title_full	Compressive strength behavior of treated marine clay using ordinary portland cement and blast furnace slag
title_fullStr	Compressive strength behavior of treated marine clay using ordinary portland cement and blast furnace slag
title_full_unstemmed	Compressive strength behavior of treated marine clay using ordinary portland cement and blast furnace slag
title_sort	compressive strength behavior of treated marine clay using ordinary portland cement and blast furnace slag
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Civil Engineering
publishDate	2017
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78660/1/KuanSiewFungMFKA2017.pdf
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Compressive strength behavior of treated marine clay using ordinary portland cement and blast furnace slag

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