In order to investigate influence of fabric of kaolin clay on secondary consolidation behavior, samples were prepared which have different fabrics, that is, samples with the addition of quanties of aluminum sulfate about 0-10%. The consolidation test were caried out for these samples under various conditions. Some of the obtained results are as follows: (1) The coefficient of secondary consolidation
Cα increases with increasing the average size of peds
P50. This seems to suggest that the volume decrease of clay due to the compression of micro-pores in the secondary stage were predominated, owing to the number of micro-pores increases with increasing
P50. (2) The elapsed time
ts at which
e-log
t curves give straight lines is affected by Δ
p/
p and
P50. Namely,
ts increases with increasing
P50, and these trends are predominated when Δ
p/
p is decreased, but,
ts is not affected by Δ
p/
p and
P50 when the preconsolidation pressure is increased.
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