Chongqing Planning and Natural Resources Bureau(KJ-2021048);Chongqing Talents Program(cstc2021ycjh-bgzxm0051);National Natural Science Foundation of China(41831282;52108303)
ZHANG Jingcheng,LI Jun,XIAO Peng,et al.Comparative study on MICP-treatment schemes for sands[J].Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering,2023,45(06):151-157.
ZHANG Jingcheng,LI Jun,XIAO Peng,et al.Comparative study on MICP-treatment schemes for sands[J].Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering,2023,45(06):151-157. DOI: 10.11835/j.issn.2096-6717.2022.125.
Comparative study on MICP-treatment schemes for sands
Microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) is a new green ground improvement technique in geotechnical engineering and has a promising prospect in reinforcing granular soils. The uniformity and the mechanical performance of MICP-treated sands are important issues in the MICP method. To optimize the MICP-treatment scheme and improve the overall performance of MICP-treated sands
a comparative experimental study on different MICP-treatment schemes for sands was carried out. Firstly
the MICP-treatment schemes
including the conventional two-phase method
the pH method and the temperature-controlled method
were introduced in detail. Then
a series of MICP-treatment experiments on sand columns were conducted
following the three different schemes
respectively. Finally
the three different schemes were compared in terms of the distribution of CaCO
3
in the post-treatment specimens
the utilization rate of reaction solutions and the unconfined compressive strength of the post-treatment specimens. Under the testing conditions in this paper
the conventional two-phase method has the worst performance in the three aspects; the pH method and the temperature-controlled method generally perform well; in comparison with the pH method
the temperature-controlled method has a higher utilization rate of reaction solutions and a higher strength under high-treatment conditions; the temperature-controlled method has the best overall performance.
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