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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND CIVIL ENGINEERING
Volume 23, Issue 6, Pages 743-757Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/19648189.2017.1304280
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Red mud; lime; compressive strength; water; lime ratio; porosity; lime ratio
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The present work enumerates the effect of lime, water content, dry density, water/lime ratio and porosity/lime ratio on the unconfined compressive strength (q(u)) of the red mud-lime mix at 28 days curing. The lime content has been varied from 3 to 11%. The results showed that the unconfined compressive strength (q(u)) increases non-linearly with the increase in lime content for the red mud-lime mix. It was also found that the strength increases with the decrease in both, porosity (eta) and inverse of volumetric lime content (L-v); whereas, it decreases with the decrease in dry density for all the red mud-lime mix studied. A power model fits well with a fair degree of correlation between unconfined compressive strength and porosity, and between the unconfined compressive strength and inverse of the volumetric lime content. Finally, it was concluded that the porosity/adjusted volumetric lime content ratio is the key parameter and it plays an essential role in the assessment of strength for the range of red mud-lime mix studied.
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