| Titre |
Microstructural, Chemical and Mineralogical Analyses for Understanding the Geotechnical Properties of Clayey Soils |
| Auteurs |
KIKI Yvette Tankpinou [1],
SAIYOURI Nadia [2],
GBAGUIDI Victor [3],
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| Journal: |
Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering |
| Catégorie Journal: |
Internationale |
| Impact factor: |
0 |
| Volume Journal: |
4 |
| DOI: |
2327-4085 |
| Resume |
This paper presents a study research in the laboratory of three clayey soils from the depression
of the Lama, a tropical climate area where disorders appear on construction
and roads. Samples were tested to establish the relationship between their mineralogy
and their geotechnical properties. On the three clayey soils, analyses were performed to
characterize the macroscopic behavior (physical tests, free swelling test and compressibility
tests) and the microstructural, chemical and mineralogical characterizations by
thermal analysis, chemical analysis, X-Ray diffraction, Scanning Electron Microscopy
observations complementary X-ray EDS analyses. At first glance, the results of physical
and compressibility tests appear not to be consistent with the free swelling test results.
Indeed, these results highlighted differences in the behaviors of the samples because the
swelling potential revealed by the results of physical and compressibility test does not
follow the same trend as the one given by the free swelling test result. The main clay
minerals in the studied clayey soils varied from fibrous clays (palygorskite) to bestknown
clays such as smectite and kaolinite. Microstructural, chemical and mineralogical
analyses allowed to understand and explain the different trends obtained by the different
types of geotechnical characterization tests of studied clayey soils. |
| Mots clés |
Geotechnical, Mineralogical, Microstructural, Free Swelling Index, Smectite,
Palygorskite, Clayey Soils |
| Pages |
305 - 319 |
| Fichier |
(PDF) |