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Abstract: A
geotechnical laboratory test program was performed to evaluate the engineering
properties of resedimented Nile Silty Clay. A bulk sample of Nile Silty Clay was
collected from a construction site in Cairo, Egypt and shipped to Tufts University in
Somerville, Massachusetts. The sample was characterized by index property tests and
prepared for the resedimentation specimen reconstitution ... read moremethod. Three Constant Rate of
Strain (CRS) tests were conducted to observe the compression behavior of RNSC. Sixteen
triaxial tests were performed to determine the stress-strength-strain behavior of RNSC.
From the testing program the compression ratio, effective friction angle, undrained
shear strength, lateral stress ratio and undrained secant Young's modulus for at low
stress (<1 Mpa) was quantified. The observed material behavior of RNSC was then
compared to the material behavior of Resedimented Boston Blue Clay and Resedimented Gulf
of Mexico Eugene Island Clay.
Thesis (M.S.)--Tufts
University, 2018.
Submitted to the Dept. of Civil
Engineering.
Advisor: John
Germaine.
Committee: Luis Dorfmann, and Richard
Plumb.
Keywords: Geotechnology, and Geological
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