ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Shear Properties of Grout-Rock Interface
for Treatment of Mud Inrush
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Engineering College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China
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Geotechnical and Structural Engineering Research Center, Shandong University, Jinan, 250061
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Ji’nan Rail Transit Group Construction Investment Co., Ltd. Jinan, Shandong, 250000
Submission date: 2021-07-26
Final revision date: 2021-09-18
Acceptance date: 2021-09-27
Online publication date: 2022-01-25
Publication date: 2022-03-22
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2022;31(2):1783-1790
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ABSTRACT
Grouting is an effective method to strengthen weak rock mass in tunnel engineering to prevent and
control mud inrush disaster. The hardened grout-rock consolidation involves not only the properties of
hardened grout, but also that of weak rock masses. As a transition region between them, the grout-rock
interface determines the overall strength, then the shear properties of which was investigated in this
study. The gushed mud from engineering project and a kind of Portland cement grout were selected as
raw materials. A test system that can apply high injection pressure was developed to simulate the actual
generation environment of grout-rock interface. By using it, two sets of samples with three different
water-to-cement (W/C) ratios: 0.8, 1 and 1.5; and three different injection pressures: 1 MPa, 1.5 MPa
and 2 MPa were prepared. After that, the direct shear test and SEM test were conducted to study the
properties of grout-rock interface. The results show that lower W/C ratio and higher injection pressure
can result in larger cohesive strength as well as internal friction angle of samples. When W/C ratio was
decreased from 1.5 to 0.8, the former increased from 171.95 kPa to 251.55 kPa, and the latter rose from
32.31° to 41.71°. Also, they increased by 73.59 % and 17.64 %, respectively, with injection pressure
ranging from 1 MPa to 2 MPa. It is hoped that the data provided will aid in the design of grouting with
this material in the future.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.