Engineering Behavior and Structure of Compacted Clay

Abstract

The following is an account of an experimental investigation of the engineering behavior of a compacted partly saturated clay and an attempt to relate this to direct microscopic observations of the clay structure. The main object was the study of the development and drainage of pore pressures and the compression characteristics of compacted clay subjected to engineering loads; shear strength was omitted from the investigation as this is one topic to have received considerable attention in the past (52).