Test Research on Engineering Property of Expansive Rocks of Anyang Test Zone in Middle Route of South-North Water Transfer Project

Abstract:

Test samples are selected in different depths of Pile No.1370 at Anyang test zone in Middle Route of South-North water transfer project. Through a series of experiment, the physical properties, mineral components and properties of mechanics, permeability and swelling-shrinking of expansive rock are well studied. The results show that hydrophilic mineral component of the expansive rock in different depths differ remarkably. To the same kind of expansive rock samples with the same dry density, cohesion and friction angles are negative linear correlation with moisture content respectively and cohesion is more sensitive to moisture content. With the same initial moisture content, the logarithm of saturated permeability coefficients of expansive rock samples are linear correlation with their dry densities. The initial moisture content has a much larger effect on maximum swelling ratio than shrinkage, thus the process of swelling-shrinking is not reversible. The results can supply scientific references for the South-North water transfer project.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 321-324)
• Pages: 239-244
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.321-324.239
• Online since: June 2013
• Authors: Zhuang Cheng*, Le Hua Wang, Yan Hua Dong, Xiao Ling Liu
• Keywords: Expansive Rock, Infiltration Intensity, Permeability, Strength, Swelling-Shrinking Property

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