Mechanical behaviour of calcareous waste under consolidated drained triaxial compression testing in saturated conditions

• Main Author: Zięba Jakub
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: EDP Sciences 2019-01-01
• Series: E3S Web of Conferences
• Subjects: Calcareous waste; CD Triaxial test; Mechanical behaviour
• Online Access: https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2019/32/e3sconf_ceim2019_01016.pdf

The article presents the mechanical behaviour of calcareous waste under consolidated and drained condition in Triaxial compression test (CD). The host material currently being considered for the construction purpose of several buildings in Poland. One of the location of calcareous waste is in Łagiewniki area (in Cracow) [1,2]. In this work, particular attention has been paid to the to ensure fully saturation for all the tested soil samples and avoid generation of unwanted excess pore water pressure during shearing stage. The saturation level of soil samples was estimated based on Skempton’s law (B>0.95). CD Triaxial test have been conducted in order to derive information on its strength and stiffness properties.