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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"liquidity index"”.
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Rate Effects in Fine Grained Soils
… a comparison of strain rate effects with soil index properties. The influence of initial state on the strain rate dependence of these Kaolin based model soils is also evaluated. The drained to partially drained response of the soils to strain rate increase is controlled by the coefficient of …
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The meaning and practical significance of the cohesion intercept in soil mechanics
… of 7-330%, liquid limit of 15-420%, plasticity index of 3-285%, liquidity index of $-$5.5 to 3.5, sensitivity up to 500, clay fraction of 2-93% and, activity of 0.1-9.6. The preconsolidation pressure ranges from a low of 44 kPa to a high of 14000 kPa. The values of c$\sp\prime$ have been …
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Engineering properties and behavior of silty soils
… possible range of silty soil deposits. Key index properties such as grain size distribution, particle morphology, Atterberg limits, and liquidity index (LI) are evaluated across more than ten representative silty soil sites worldwide. Silty soil is defined as particle size between 2 and 60 …
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Three Essays On Firm Liquidity Management
… 1, we study the costs associated with firm illiquidity. We specifically examine the impact of illiquidity on the costs of financing, financial distress, underinvestment, and competitiveness in product markets. We focus on a comprehensive definition of liquidity that expands upon the typical …
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Potassium acetate treatment as a potential means for stabilising extra sensitive, halloysite-rich soils in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand — A novel approach to an old issue
… the liquid limit (58%65%) and reduced the liquidity index to below 1 (2.1 untreated, 0.57 treated). Treatment of the soil did produce a drastic increase in shear strength within the soil, with effective cohesion increasing from 4.2 kPa to 40.9 kPa following 12 months of treatment, while …
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Disaggregation of soil during slurry pipe jacking
… of the clay and silt sized particles. The liquidity index and initial soil strength were not found to be important factors in the predicting the rate of disaggregation of a particular soil type, but were significant for some soils. The Fleetwood Silts had the lowest unconfined compressive …
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Meaning, measurement, and field application of fully softened shear strength of stiff clays and clay shales
… characterized in terms of plasticity index from 10% to 250%, based on consolidated triaxial compression tests on remolded, normally consolidated specimens of 15 stiff clay and clay shale compositions. The fully softened shear strength data interpreted from laboratory tests reported in …
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Investigation of the critical specific gravity for cables and pipelines during various backfilling and installation processes
… between undrained shear strength and liquidity index was calibrated using two fine grained materials at very high moisture contents. While the existing literature lacks a criterion to define flotation, a standard framework to quantify the mobilised resistance as a function of the …
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Rate Effect Behaviour of Different Clays from High Speed Triaxial Element Testing
The rate effect response of three natural clays has been studied using high-speed triaxial element testing at axial strain rates up to 100,000 %/hr. Strain rate effects lead to increasing soil shear strength in fine grained soils under undrained conditions and are important for accurate predictions …