Abstract:
In order to investigate the long-term performance of "modified cured silt", which is a multi-phase cementitious material based on green magnesium chloride cement and supplemented by fly ash and slag as the industrial by-products, by further modifiying the initially cured silt as the roadbed filler, the soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC), rebound modulus (
MR), unconfined compressive strength (
qu), stiffness parameters (
E1% and
Su1%) and cumulative plastic strain (
εp) of the modified cured silt in East Lake section of Wuhan are obtained through a series of tests after various drying-wetting cycles. The results show that: (1) The drying-wetting cycles produce a large number of macroscopic cracks and microscopic fissures in the modified cured silt specimens, which significantly reduce their water holding capacity in the low suction section, but have essentially no effects on the water holding capacity in the high suction section. (2)
qu,
E1%,
Su1% and
MRrep all decay with the increasing
NDW, and their decay mechanisms are similar, and the decay factor (χ
DW)-
NDW relationship model is established accordingly. (3) After undergoing the drying-wetting cycles, the sensitivity of
MR to changes in the periapical pressure (
σc) increases, whereas two different responses to the bias pressure (
σd) are observed. (4)
εp of the modified cured silt specimens that do not undergo the drying-wetting cycles exhibits a plastic stable type, while after undergoing the drying-wetting cycles,
εp of the specimens transforms into a plastic transitional type at high
σd and low
σc levels