Water Content Distribution of Binary Soil Mixtures
Abstract
Binary soil mixtures are mostly used for liner
materials. The most common binary mixture is compacted sand bentonite mixture;
lately compacted zeolite bentonite mixture is also proposed. The major
difference between sand and zeolite is that, sand is an impervious grain where
zeolite is a pervious, microporous grain. Additionally, zeolite holds water
whereas sand does not. Thus, when bentonite is blended with zeolite, the
mixtures is expected to behave different than it’s blended with sand.
Unfortunately, this major difference is rarely of interest by researchers and
zeolite water content was used to be assumed to be zero like sand. This study
investigates the water content distribution of components in binary mixtures
namely, zeolite bentonite mixture and sand bentonite mixture. During the tests,
it is assumed that sand had no water content. The saturated state water content
of zeolite for varying grain sizes was found to be 28% and zeolite and
bentonite are found to be in competition to hold water. Test results showed
that zeolite water content increases slightly up to the optimum water content
of the mixture, reaches a maximum value and then starts to decrease rapidly.
The water content of bentonite in zeolite bentonite mixture and sand bentonite
mixture is found to be almost the same between the dry of optimum and optimum
compaction states and when the mixtures are in wet of optimum compaction state
the water content of bentonite in zeolite bentonite mixture is getting to be
higher than it is in sand bentonite mixture.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
Yer Bilimleri ve Jeoloji Mühendisliği (Diğer)
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
19 Aralık 2016
Gönderilme Tarihi
27 Kasım 2016
Kabul Tarihi
19 Aralık 2016
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2016 Cilt: 1 Sayı: 2