Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9230-6872

Document Type

Article

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Geosciences, (multidisciplinary), 2.1 CIVIL ENGINEERING, Civil engineering, 2.3 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, Environmental and geological engineering, Geotechnics

Publication Details

This paper was part of the 6th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterization, held on September 2021 by the Hungarian Geotechnical Society

Abstract

Electro-osmotic consolidation is a ground improvement technique in which a DC voltage is applied to the soil via electrodes, in order to drain the water contained in the pores increasing the effective stress, and thus improving the geotechnical properties of the soil. The technique increases the shear strength, reduces the compressibility, and changes the chemical composition of the saturated soft clayey and silty soils to which it can be applied. Electro-osmotic consolidation has been successfully applied in different projects worldwide. This paper presents the development of a new electro-osmotic consolidation apparatus built at Universidad de Antioquia. Tests were carried on a reconstituted clay sample and the results show effective soil improvement, measured as changes in the geotechnical properties of the clay.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/bjjw-3s84

Funder

Universidad de Antioquia

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