Study on Strength and Permeability of Silt Soils Improving by Tung Oil and Sticky Rice Juice

Table 1

Grain-size composition, Atterberg limits, organic content, specific gravity, and mineralogical composition of the tested sediments (SY1 and SY2) evaluated by X-ray diffraction.

(A) Qiantang River silt soil
Soil code	SY1
Atterberg limits
Liquid limit	33.3
Plasticity index	9.1
Grain composition, %
>0.05 mm	0
0.01∼0.05 mm	75
0.05∼0.005 mm	17
<0.005 mm	8
Organic content, %	1.8
Specific gravity	2700
Maximum dry density: g/mm^3	1.59
Mineralogical composition, %
Quartz	50
Albite	27
Muscovite	14
Clinochlore	9
(B) Original silt soil samples in the 2^nd layer of the Tianluoshan site
Soil code	SY2
Atterberg limits
Liquid limit	33.3
Plasticity index	9.1
Grain composition, %
>0.05 mm	0
0.01∼0.05 mm	72
0.05∼0.005 mm	15
<0.005 mm	13
Organic content, %	2.2
Specific gravity	2700
Maximum dry density, g/mm^3	1.56
Mineralogical composition, %
Quartz	53
Albite	5
Muscovite	28
Dickite	14