Engineering Geology

Engineering Geology

Effects of Texture and Carbonate Content on Internal Friction Angle for Soils of Northern Coasts of Persian Gulf

Authors
Habib Shahnazari
Mahmoud Fatemiaghda
Hamid Reza Karami
Mehdi Talkhablou
10.52547/jeg.14.5.113
Abstract
The present work is conducted to investigate the effect of texture and carbonate content on internal friction angle of carbonate soils. Carbonate soils are majorly found in the bed of shallow waters and also offshores in tropical regions. Recently there is a huge construction projects including oil and gas extraction platform and facilities, harbors, refineries, huge bridges and other big construction projects in many offshore and onshore areas around the world. One of these area is located on southern part of Iran. We collected soil samples from different parts of northern coasts of Persian Gulf, then the following experiments were performed, carbonate content, three-dimensional grain size, angularity, relative density & direct shear. The results showed that the average of internal friction angle of carbonate soil is higher respect to known silicate sands. This angle is affected by effective grain size, grain angularity, and calcium carbonate content. Based on the experimental results of this study, one of the results was that the internal friction angle of carbonate soils decreases as their effective size of soil aggregates increases.
Keywords
 Internal friction angle
shear strength
Carbonate soils
soil texture
Calcium carbonate content
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