Experimental study on engineering properties of fiber-stabilized carbide-slag-solidified soil

PLoS One. 2022 Apr 14;17(4):e0266732. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266732. eCollection 2022.

Abstract

Carbide slag has been used to prepare solidified soil to effectively reduce the stacking and disposal of carbide slag and achieve efficient resource utilization. Because of the significant brittleness and low strength of carbide-slag-stabilized soil, fibers were added to carbide-slag-stabilized soil in this experimental study. The effects of fiber length and fiber content on the unconfined compressive and indirect tensile strengths of carbide-slag-stabilized soil were investigated. The concepts of the density of fibers in solidified soil and the number of fibers in a unit volume solidified soil were proposed, and the effects of fiber distribution density on the mechanical properties of the solidified soil were evaluated. The fibers increased the indirect tensile strength of the carbide-slag-solidified soil, which was significantly higher than the unconfined compressive strength of the solidified soil. The fibers had no significant effect on the unconfined compressive and indirect tensile strengths of the 7 d carbide-slag-solidified soil but increased those of the 28 d carbide-slag-solidified soil. The enhancement effect was the most significant when a 0.3% content of 19 mm long fibers was incorporated into the carbide-slag-solidified soil.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Engineering
  • Organic Chemicals
  • Soil Pollutants* / analysis
  • Soil*

Substances

  • Organic Chemicals
  • Soil
  • Soil Pollutants

Grants and funding

This study was funded by Science and Technology Support Project of Langfang (Grant Number 2021013167). The funder had important role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.