Title
Continuous stiffness monitoring of cemented sand through resonant frequency
Date Issued
2011
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Azenha M.
Ferreira C.
Silva J.
Correia A.G.
Ramos L.F.
University of Minho
Abstract
Mixture formulation and in-situ quality control of the stabilized soils often represent difficult and challenging tasks. The present paper addresses the possibility of using a variant to a recently developed non-destructive technique for continuous monitoring of stiffness of hardening materials as a supporting means to the above-mentioned tasks. The material to be tested is placed inside a polycarbonate mold placed in simply supported conditions. The technique is based on the continuous monitoring of the first resonant frequency of this composite beam, which evolves as a consequence of the hardening of the material, and can be correlated with its E-modulus. The usefulness and potential of this experimental methodology for mixture formulation and quality control of stabilized soils is shown through a series of tests conducted on laboratory since the instant of mixing until 7 days. The conducted tests include complementary methodologies of characterization such as E-modulus measured on specimens with strain instrumentation, as well as monitoring with recourse to bender-extender elements. © 2011 ASCE.
Start page
174
End page
183
Issue
218 GSP
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería civil Estudios urbanos
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-80052818758
ISBN
9780784476291
Source
Geotechnical Special Publication
Resource of which it is part
Geotechnical Special Publication
ISSN of the container
08950563
ISBN of the container
978-078447629-1
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