Abstract:
There is a large area of high saline dredger fill in China’s coastal areas that are needed to be stabilized. Self-made stabilizer A and portland cement are adopted to stabilize the dredger fill collected from the Tianjin Binhai New Area. The salinity of the dredger fill is 8%. Under the mixing ratio of 10% and 15%, the strengths of the stabilized soil by means of the stabilizer A are increased by 2.4 times and 1.7 times than those by use of the portland cement, respectively. The results from the s canning electron microscopy ( SEM), X-ray Diffraction ( XRD) and energy-dispersive X-ray ( EDXA) tests show that when using the stabilizer A to stabilize the soil sample TT, besides generating similar hydration products with portland cement, the stabilizer A can react with NaCl in the soil sample TT to generate Ca
4Al
2Cl
2O
6?10H
2O, which greatly increases the strength of the stabilized dredger fill by its solid volume expansion.