Abstract
Slurry walls are used as cut-off walls and are designed to meet strength and permeability criteria, with the latter often being a governing factor. An investigation was undertaken to explore the use of polypropylene fibres in cement bentonite ground granulated blastfurnace slag slurry walls in order to assess the effect of fibres on permeability in the main. Flow, bleed and both undrained and drained strength were also measured. Fibres reduced both the flow and bleed. They also marginally increased the permeability. Undrained strength together with strain to failure increased. However, under drained conditions strain to failure increased compared to mixes with any fibre
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 63-83 |
| Journal | Studia Geotechnica et Mechanica |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |