Freezing–thawing behavior of fine-grained soils reinforced with polypropylene fibers

Effects of freeze–thaw cycles on a fiber reinforced fine grained soil in relation to geotechnical parameters

“…Furthermore, in very small strains, the initial stiffness of the soil appears not to be affected by the addition of fiber. Similar results were also obtained for high plasticity silt (Zaimoglu, 2010).…”

A Study on Freeze-Thaw Behavior of Randomly Distributed Fiber-Reinforced Soil

“…Similar to the findings reported in the literature [2,4,11,29,35], the test results suggest that the fiber reinforcements can change the brittle behaviour of the clay to a somewhat more ductile (i.e., strain hardening) one. Also, the test results present, in general, a decrease in peak stresses by increasing the number of freeze thaw cycles for both reinforced and unreinforced samples.…”

“…Reinforcement elements are placed in the soil in order to reduce the impact of adverse effects of freezethaw phenomenon on some of the engineering properties of fine-grained soils. In comparison with the studies on the compaction and strength characteristics of randomly reinforced cohesive soils [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30], there are a limited number of studies on the freeze-thaw behaviour of fiber reinforced clays in the literature [14,29,34,35].…”

Strength development and post freeze-thaw behavior of kaolin reinforced with fibers

“…The stress-strain responses of the soil treated with fibers and synthetic fluid in terms of post-peak strength, strain hardening, and ductility were better than that of treated with synthetic fluid alone, emphasizing the importance of fiber inclusions in the soil improvement. Zaimoglu (2010) found that the UCS of MH specimens subjected to freeze-thaw cycles generally increased with increasing fiber content. On the other hand, the results indicated that the initial stiffness of the stress-strain curves was not affected significantly by the fiber reinforcement in the unconfined compression tests and stated that the mass loss in reinforced soils was almost 50% lower than that in the unreinforced soil.…”