DOI10.11779/CJGE201502020 3 10 MPa 10 MPa TU43 A 10004548(2015)02035106 (1962 )E-mail: sundean@shu.edu.cn Soil-water characteristics and pore-size distribution of lateritic clay SUN De-an 1, 2, GAO You 1, LIU Wen-jie 1, WEI Chang-fu 2, ZHANG Sheng 3 (1. Department of Civil Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China; 2. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China; 3. School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China) Abstract: The pressure plate method, filter paper method and vapor equilibrium technique with saturated salt solution and mercury intrusion porosimetry tests on Guilin lateritic clay are used to investigate the soil-water characteristics and pore-size distribution of undisturbed and compacted specimens in full suction range. The test results show that the undisturbed specimen has lower water content and saturation degree than the compacted one in the suction ranging from 0 kpa to 10 MPa because of the development of internal crack of undisturbed specimen with the increasing suction. When the suction is higher than 10 MPa, the soil-water characteristic curves (SWCC) coincide with each other. In the transition zone, the SWCCs of the undisturbed and compacted specimens are different from the typical ones. The undisturbed natural specimens exhibit a unimodal pore-size distribution, and the compacted ones usually have a double-porosity microstructure. The stability of shrinkage of the undisturbed natural specimen is larger than that of the compacted one. The compacted specimens with different dry densities also have the same pore-size distribution between particles, while the inter-aggregate pore distribution differ between the compacted specimens with different dry densities. It explains that when it is expressed by the relation between suction and water content, the SWCC is independent of dry density in the high suction range. When it is expressed by the relation between suction and saturation degree, the SWCC with high dry density is higher than that with the small one. Key words: soil-water characteristic curve; lateritic clay; mercury intrusion porosimetry; pore-size distribution; undisturbed specimen [1] 973 2014CB047001 13-KF-03 20140516
352 2015 [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] 01.5 MPa 0.540 MPa 3367 MPa X 56.59%11.44% 15.61%12.45% 2 μm 50.8% [8] 61.8 mm 20 mm 32.1% 1.4 g/cm 3 2 mm 32.1% 2.744 1.52 g/cm 3 28% 77.8% 42.1% 35.7 32.5% 1.7% 1.7% 0.317 57.07 kpa 21.9 GCTS SWC-150 15bar 1.5 MPa SWC-150 1.2 MPa 7 32 % 1.4 g/cm 3 7 7%32% Lock&Lock 3 Whatman No.42 [9] 8 15 min [10] 1 20 Table 1 Saturated salt solution and corresponding suctions RH/% /MPa LiBr 6.6 367.54 LiCl H 2 O 12.0 286.70 CH 3 COOK 23.1 198.14 MgCl 2 6H 2 O 33.1 149.51 K 2 CO 3 43.2 113.50 NaBr 59.1 71.12 KI 69.9 48.42 NaCl 75.5 38.00 KCL 85.1 21.82 K 2 SO 4 97.6 3.29 1 1.4 g/cm 3
2. 353 1 3 10 kpa 101.0 MPa 1.010 MPa 10 MPa 1c Fig. 1 SWCCs and void ratios of undisturbed lateritic clay in full suction range 2 Fig. 2 Undisturbed and compacted specimens after air-drying 1.0 MPa 1.0 MPa 3 3 3ab 20 kpa 3 10 MPa 2 10 MPa 3c 1 MPa 3a 3c
354 2015 p(d)pad m T s N/m [12-13] 3 1.74 1.00 0.97 Micromeritics AutoPore IV 4207 kpa 207413700 kpa 4 Fig. 3 SWCCs and void ratios of undisturbed and compacted specimens in full suction range p(d) d Wash burn [11] 4Ts cos pd ( ) (1) d Fig. 4 Relationship between diameter and cumulative intruded volume 4 3 3 0.010.1 μm
2. 355 2 c Kodikara [14] 0.0041 μm 130 μm101000 μm Fig. 5 Relationship between diameter and density of pore-size distribution 5 0.01 μm 5500 μm 6a 6b 6a 6b Fig. 6 Soil-water characteristic curves of compacted lateritic clay with two dry densities in wetting 1 3 2 10 MPa 10 MPa 3 4
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