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Nature of Expansive Soils
This chapter discusses the general physicochemical factors that comprise the microscale aspects and how they influence soil behavior and expansion potential. It also discusses the macroscale properties, such as density and water content and how they are influenced by the interaction of the micelles and the microscale aspects. The chapter shows how those factors are used to identify expansive soils. The identification methods used to identify the swell potential of expansive soils can generally be grouped into two categories. The first category mainly involves measurement of physical properties of soils, such as Atterberg limits, free swell, and potential volume change. The second category involves measurement of mineralogical and chemical properties of soils, such as clay content, cation exchange capacity, and specific surface area. The chapter finishes with a discussion of the geographic distribution of expansive soils around the world and presents characteristics of some expansive soil profiles.
Nature of Expansive Soils
This chapter discusses the general physicochemical factors that comprise the microscale aspects and how they influence soil behavior and expansion potential. It also discusses the macroscale properties, such as density and water content and how they are influenced by the interaction of the micelles and the microscale aspects. The chapter shows how those factors are used to identify expansive soils. The identification methods used to identify the swell potential of expansive soils can generally be grouped into two categories. The first category mainly involves measurement of physical properties of soils, such as Atterberg limits, free swell, and potential volume change. The second category involves measurement of mineralogical and chemical properties of soils, such as clay content, cation exchange capacity, and specific surface area. The chapter finishes with a discussion of the geographic distribution of expansive soils around the world and presents characteristics of some expansive soil profiles.
Nature of Expansive Soils
Nelson, John D. (author) / Chao, Kuo Chieh (Geoff) (author) / Overton, Daniel D. (author) / Nelson, Erik J. (author)
2015-02-17
50 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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