Reconstituted soil is the soil combination prepared by breaking down natural soils, mixing with water as a slurry, and reconsolidating them.
A reconstituted clay is one that has been thoroughly mixed at between 1 and 1.5 times the liquid limit and preferably consolidated one-dimensionally.
Preparation Methods of Reconstituted Soil
According to Liu et al. (2016) followings are the reconstituted soil preparation methods that had been developed to prepare specimens in the laboratory.
- Moist Tamping (Compaction),
- Water Pluviation,
- Air Pluviation,
- Slurry Deposition, and
- Slurry Consolidation.
As per Yin and Miao (2015), reconstituted soil sample preparation could be done in the following two ways mainly
- Preparation by Compaction method and
- Preparation by Consolidation of slurry
References
- Burland, J.B. (1990), “On the Compressibility and Shear Strength of Natural Clays”.
- Liu, M.D. and Carter, J.P. (1999), “Virgin Compression of Structured Soils”.
- Yin, J. and Miao, Y.H. (2015), “An Oedometer-Based Method for Preparing Reconstituted Clay Samples”.
- Kausar Alam Anik, Md. (2019) "Shear strength and compressibility characteristics of reconstituted clays".