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Effect of Stern-layer on the compressibility behaviour of bentonites

Tripathy, Snehasis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1632-7668, Bag, Ramakrishna and Thomas, Hywel R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3951-0409 2014. Effect of Stern-layer on the compressibility behaviour of bentonites. Acta Geotechnica 9 (6) , pp. 1097-1109. 10.1007/s11440-013-0222-y

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Abstract

The Stern theory as applicable to interacting parallel clay platelet systems was used to study the compressibility behaviour of bentonites. For a constant surface electrical potential, the distribution of the total electrical charge among the Stern-layer and the Gouy-layer was found to have significant influence on the electrical potential at the midplane between clay platelets. Consideration of the Stern-layer was found to reduce the repulsive pressure or the swelling pressure between clay platelets at large platelet spacing, whereas the repulsive pressure increased significantly when the interacting Gouy-layers were pushed aside. A far greater repulsive pressure was noted for Ca-bentonite than that occurred for Na-bentonite at a platelet distance close to 1.0 nm. Similarly, strong interaction between clay platelets was noted due to suppressed Gouy-layers when the bulk fluid concentration was increased. The repulsive pressure generated due to the overlapping of the Stern-layers was found to be sensitive to changes in the specific adsorption potential, the dielectric constant of the pore fluid in the Stern-layer, and the surface electrical potential. Comparisons of the calculated pressure–void ratio relationships from the Stern theory and the Gouy-Chapman diffuse double layer theory with the experimental consolidation test results of Na- and divalent-rich bentonites showed that, in general, the Stern theory improved the predictions of pressure–void ratio relationships, particularly for pressures greater than 100 kPa; however, strong agreements were lacking in all the cases studied.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Engineering
Subjects: T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Publisher: Springer Verlag
ISSN: 1861-1125
Date of Acceptance: 18 February 2013
Last Modified: 24 Oct 2022 12:02
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/50213

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