Experimental Study on Mechanical Characteristics of CSG Materials

Abstract

Cemented sand and gravel (CSG) is a new type of dam materials. It not only can reduce the waste of resources and environmental pollution, but has the merits of both gravel and concrete. In this study, Cemented sand and gravel specimens with three cement ratios were compacted at optimum water content and cured for 14 days. Based on the consolidated drained shear triaxial tests, the mechanical properties of different proportion of CSG are studied on shear failure mode, stress-strain relationship, shear strength. Research results showed that, with the increasing of the content of cement, the peak and residual strength of CSG were improved, but the failure strains were decreased. In addition, CSG material behaves distinctly softening.

Fragility curves for hardfill dams under seismic loading

“…For short-term conditions, the hardfill cohesion, c, corresponds to the average of those values associated to a curing time of 14 days gathered from Zou, Li, Xu and Kong (Zou et al, 2011;Xiong et al, 2008) summarized in Table 4. Similarly, the internal friction angle, ϕ,…”