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Effect of Light Biocementation on the Liquefaction Triggering and Post-Triggering Behavior of Loose Sands

2021· article· en· W3205494208 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicMicrobial Applications in Construction Materials
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLiquefactionCementation (geology)Geotechnical engineeringShearing (physics)Soil waterGeologyConsolidation (business)Effective stressCalciteMaterials scienceMineralogySoil scienceComposite materialCement

Abstract

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Microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) is an environmentally conscious ground-improvement method that can enhance the engineering properties of granular soils through the precipitation of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) on soil particle surfaces and contacts. Although numerous studies have shown the ability of biocementation to improve the liquefaction resistance of loose sands, the effects of light cementation levels on undrained cyclic behaviors have remained relatively unexplored. A series of undrained monotonic and cyclic direct simple shear tests were performed to examine the effect of light biocementation (ΔVs<100 m/s and CaCO3 contents <0.9%) on the liquefaction triggering and post-triggering behavior of loose Ottawa F-65 sand subjected to varying loading magnitudes [cyclic stress ratio (CSR)=0.1 to 0.3]. Results suggest that the presence of light biocementation can significantly improve the liquefaction triggering resistance of loose sands, with log-linear increases in the number of cycles required to trigger liquefaction, which consistently correlated with cementation-induced Vs increases. Despite these remarkable pretriggering improvements, almost no improvements were observed in post-triggering strain accumulation and postcyclic reconsolidation behaviors, with Vs measurements indicating that small-strain improvements were largely erased following shearing events.

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Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.030
Threshold uncertainty score0.315

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.003
GPT teacher head0.201
Teacher spread0.198 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it