Pandian, NS and Nagaraj, TS (1990) Critical Reappraisal of Colloidal Activity of Clays. In: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 116 (2). pp. 285-296.
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Soil properties and their behavior, apart from stress history, are influence markedly by physicochemical characteristics of the constituent clay and nonclay minerals and their relative proportions. Atterberg limits and Skempton's colloidal activity, which are simple quantitative parameters, reflect the composite effects of the soil constituents and their interactions with pore fluid. Micromechanistic interpretations of these parameters have been provided in this paper. It has been shown that, in general, the liquid limit of fine-grained soils reflects the physicochemical potential and that each of the factors of Skempton's colloidal activity are interdependent. It has been illustrated that property correlations with colloidal activity, as well as with Atterberg limits, result in involved interrelationships due to the interdependence of the parameters.
|Item Type:||Journal Article|
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|Department/Centre:||Division of Mechanical Sciences > Civil Engineering|
|Date Deposited:||03 Feb 2011 06:47|
|Last Modified:||03 Feb 2011 06:47|
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