Study on a quantitative method for determining mixing proportion of transparent cemented soil for visual geotechnical model tests

An effective mixing of transparent cemented soil is necessary for visual geotechnical model tests, so a quantitative method for determining mixing proportion of transparent cemented soil was generated in this paper. Firstly, quartz sand, Nanoscale silica powder and N-dodecane mixed 15# white oil were selected as the raw materials, and a series of orthogonal experiments were designed. Concurrently, the main physical and mechanical parameters (volumetric weight γ, internal friction angle φ, cohesion c) of transparent cemented soil were measured, caused by the change of \"particle size of quartz sand\" and \" mass ratios between fumed silica and fused quartz\". Subsequently, multiple linear regression equations of various physical and mechanical parameters (γ, φ, c) were obtained by fitting the original test data. Finally, the rationality of multiple linear regression equations was proved. The research results indicated: (1) the volumetric weight changes from 16.13kN/m3 to 12.53kN/m3, the Inte..., ,