Robinson, RG and Allam, MM (1997) Triaxial A-value versus swell or collapse for compacted soil - Discussion. In: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 123 (1). pp. 78-79.
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A discussion of a technical note with the aforementioned title by Day and Marsh, published in this journal (Volume 121, Number 7, July 1995), is presented. Discussers Robinson and Allam assert that the authors' application of the pore-pressure parameter A to predict and quantify swell or collapse of compacted soils is hard to use because the authors visualize the collapse-swell phenomenon to occur in compacted soils broadly classified as sands and clays. The literature demonstrates that mineralogy has an important role in the volume change behavior of fine-grained soils. Robinson and Allam state that the A-value measurements may not completely predict the type of volume change anticipated in compacted soils on soaking without soil clay mineralogy details. Discussion is followed by closure from the authors.
| Item Type: | Editorials/Short Communications |
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| Publication: | Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering |
| Publisher: | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to American Society of Civil Engineers. |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Civil Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jun 2011 06:16 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jun 2011 06:16 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/38556 |
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