Abstract
In the vacuum treatment of dredged slurries via prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs), both filtration and consolidation may happen to dredged slurries when subjected to the vacuum gradient. Similar to the consolidation, the filtration may provide equally useful information on interpreting the constitutive behavior of the slurry. In this paper, a new approach utilizing the filtration process is devised to evaluate the constitutive behaviors of dredged slurries. The approach is composed of a vacuum filtration device and an iterative curve fitting algorithm. Two types of tests, namely step-vacuum filtration and constant-vacuum filtration followed by compression test, must be conducted on the slurry specimens, and only the time variations of the filtrate discharge should be recorded. On the basis of the recorded data, the curve fitting algorithm is adopted for determining the parameters of the constitutive equations. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is verified through comparing the obtained compressibility and permeability of the slurries with the data provided by the oedometer test and with the empirical relationships from different sources. The comparisons demonstrate that the constitutive relationships determined by the present approach can predict the compressibility and permeability characteristics of dredged slurries with an acceptable degree of accuracy.
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