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Some factors affecting the relation between the clay minerals in soils and their plasticity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

M. J. Dumbleton  and
G. West
M. J. Dumbleton
Affiliation:
Road Research Laboratory, Ministry of Transport, Harmondsworth, Middlesex
G. West
Affiliation:
Road Research Laboratory, Ministry of Transport, Harmondsworth, Middlesex
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Abstract

The clay mineral composition is one of the factors that affect the physical properties of soils, and a knowledge of it is required to promote a fuller understanding of the origin of these properties. The relationships between the clay content and the plastic and liquid limits of natural montmorillonitic and kaolinitic soils and of artificial mixtures have been examined and compared. Factors affecting the relationships are discussed, and illustrated by the effect of particle aggregation on the measurement of the liquid limit of tropical red clays and on the sedimentation analysis of the Keuper Marl. The effect of muscovite and of silt-sized material on the position of soils on the Casagrande classification chart has also been examined.

Type
Research Article
Information
Clay Minerals , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , July 1966 , pp. 179 - 193
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1966

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