eprintid: 10079527 rev_number: 24 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/07/95/27 datestamp: 2019-08-09 13:47:44 lastmod: 2021-10-05 00:37:20 status_changed: 2019-08-09 13:47:44 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Ekinci, A creators_name: Ince, C creators_name: Ferreira, PMV title: An Experimental Study on Compression and Shrinkage Behavior of Cement-Treated Marine Deposited Clays ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F44 keywords: Compression, Clay, Cementation, Sensitivity, Shrinkage, Structure note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: Marine clay deposits are commonly found soils around the world. Owing to the high costs of material disposal and the associated environmental problems, there is a growing need to find an alternative solution to reusing unsuitable soils. In the current study, the shrinkage and compression behavior of marine deposited clays, a soil commonly found worldwide, has been studied using intact, reconstituted, and cement-treated samples. Additionally, the effect of cement inclusion was evaluated for dosages ranging from 1 to 7%. Furthermore, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis and X-ray diffractometry were conducted to study the microstructural developments of cement-treated clays. The results reported in this paper have important practical implications as they provide significant knowledge on the compressibility behavior of marine deposited clays, examined for the first time considering a sensitivity framework. Such an examination allows assessment of the effect of burial depth and cement incorporation on structure. This study further enables manipulation of the engineering properties and hence serves to develop the constitutive modeling of cement-treated clays. Furthermore, a well-established relationship developed in shrinkage and compressibility of marine deposited clays will serve to optimize these two independent soil properties. date: 2019-09 date_type: published official_url: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40891-019-0172-z oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1673375 doi: 10.1007/s40891-019-0172-z lyricists_name: Ferreira, Pedro lyricists_id: PMVFE79 actors_name: Austen, Jennifer actors_id: JAUST66 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering volume: 5 article_number: 21 issn: 2199-9279 citation: Ekinci, A; Ince, C; Ferreira, PMV; (2019) An Experimental Study on Compression and Shrinkage Behavior of Cement-Treated Marine Deposited Clays. International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering , 5 , Article 21. 10.1007/s40891-019-0172-z <https://doi.org/10.1007/s40891-019-0172-z>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10079527/3/Ferreira%20Manuscript%20-%20%20Ekinci%20Ince%20Ferreira.pdf