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    Cement treatment of clay soils improves their strength and impermeability. The cement reacts with clay through primary hydration and secondary reactions with silica and alumina, forming cementitious compounds that bind the soil particles. This increases unconfined compressive strength significantly as shown by tests on 11 different clay soils, with strengths doubling or tripling with 3-5% cement content. Cement treatment also reduces volume changes from moisture variation and protects the subgrade from drying before pavement construction.

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    Cement treatment of clay soils improves their strength and impermeability. The cement reacts with clay through primary hydration and secondary reactions with silica and alumina, forming cementitious compounds that bind the soil particles. This increases unconfined compressive strength significantly as shown by tests on 11 different clay soils, with strengths doubling or tripling with 3-5% cement content. Cement treatment also reduces volume changes from moisture variation and protects the subgrade from drying before pavement construction.

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    Cement treatment of clay soils improves their strength and impermeability. The cement reacts with clay through primary hydration and secondary reactions with silica and alumina, forming cementitious compounds that bind the soil particles. This increases unconfined compressive strength significantly as shown by tests on 11 different clay soils, with strengths doubling or tripling with 3-5% cement content. Cement treatment also reduces volume changes from moisture variation and protects the subgrade from drying before pavement construction.

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    portion of the moisture-controlled subgrade not only prevents cementitious material.

    (Obviously, this secondary process


    volume changes but produces an impermeable layer that will does not occur with clean granular materials or concrete
    protect the soil below from seasonable variations in moisture aggregates.) Thus, in spite of the otherwise objectionable
    content. The cement-treated layer also provides protection properties of untreated clay, the clay material itself contributes
    against subgrade drying between the time the subgrade is somewhat to the strength development of cement-clay
    compacted and the subsequent layers of the pavement are placed. mixtures.
    Strength and Bearing Tests. The cementitious reaction Examples of the beneficial effect of cement-modification on
    between cement and clay takes place as primary and second- compressive strength are given in Table 5 for 9 clay soils.
    ary processes. Hydration of the cement is regarded as the These data are from a comprehensive study5 that also investi-
    primary reaction and forms the normal cement hydration gated other properties of cement-treated clay such as triaxial
    products that bind particles together. In the secondary process, strength, cohesiometer values, plasticity indices, shrinkage
    the fresh calcium hydroxide formed in the primary phase reacts limits, and so forth. Similar increases in strength were found in
    with the silica and alumina in the clay to form additional the results of triaxial strength tests and cohesiometer tests.

    Table 5. Unconfined Compressive Strengths,* psi, of Cement-Treated Clays

    No compaction delay 24-hour compaction delay


    Cement
    AASHTO Content, 7-day 28-day 7-day 28-day
    Soil No. Classification percent strength strength strength strength
    by wt.

    1 A-7-6(20) 0 56 -- -- --
    3 98 135 83 128
    5 160 233 155 207

    2 A-6(8) 0 26 -- -- --
    3 316 374 243 324
    5 445 495 270 371

    4 A7-6(17) 0 29 -- -- --
    3 216 277 179 238
    5 332 426 256 320

    6 A-6(9) 0 28 -- -- --
    3 210 269 141 185
    5 323 414 234 302

    7 A-7-6(19) 0 41 -- -- --
    3 124 149 100 133
    5 172 232 158 213

    8 A-6(6) 0 26 -- -- --
    3 234 276 156 267
    5 405 452 217 346

    9 A-7-6(18) 0 37 -- -- --
    3 158 202 135 192
    5 243 310 219 283

    10 A-6(9) 0 54 -- -- --
    3 114 158 84 140
    5 174 234 141 205

    11 A-7-6(14) 0 38 -- -- --
    3 147 186 107 137
    5 237 377 204 294

    *2.8 x 5.6 in. cylinders kept damp until tested. From Reference 5.

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