Assessment of the clogging potential of two clays

• Main Authors: Kang, Chao, Wu, Yichen, Yi, Yaolin, Bayat, Alireza
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Civil engineering; Montmorillonite; Kaolinite
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143635
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Clogging sometimes occurs in tunnelling projects. Soils containing high plasticity clay minerals have a high potential for clogging. To gain a better understanding of the effect of swelling clay on the clogging potential, two different clays, bentonite and kaolin, were tested in different proportion...