Understanding the Effect of Pulp Mill Fly Ash on Strength, Compressibility, and Microstructure of Organic Soil
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Abstract
A lower shear strength and higher compressibility impose major challenges for construction on organic soils. Cementitious materials have been effectively used in the improvement of the engineering properties of mineral soils with low organic contents. However, limited studies have been devoted to the stabilization of the organic soils commonly encountered in forested regions in Canada. The present study investigated the effects of pulp mill fly ash (PFA) on the compressibility of a natural soil consisting of 26% organic matter. Fall-cone and oedometer tests were conducted on organic soil mixed with different PFA dosages (5%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, and 50%), as well as on untreated soil samples. The mineralogical and microstructural aspects of PFA-treated organic soil were examined using scanning electron microscope and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy techniques. The results suggest that when the organic soil was treated with PFA, its undrained shear strength and compressibility behavior were improved. Moreover, the potentially large settlement of organic soil can be reduced by the addition of PFA. The primary and secondary compression index (Cc and Cα, respectively) values decreased significantly when compared with the untreated organic soil, indicating that PFA stabilizers can effectively improve the creep behavior of organic soils. These findings indicate that the beneficial utilization of PFA for the stabilization of organic soils could be a practical step toward the environmentally sound management of this waste byproduct.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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