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The constructional activities on peat soil are avoided which is due to its poor load-bearing capacity and high compressibility. Therefore, it always requires making the peat conducive in terms of its both strength and compressibility so as to undergo an infrastructural operation over it. However, apart from strength and compressibility criteria, there lie other two parameters (i.e., pH and electric conductivity) which also need to give emphasis while making any constructional activity over it. This paper studies the importance of accounting the pH and electric conductivity (EC) of peat soils as a significant parameter from the constructional point of view. Moreover, the change in behavior of pH and EC with cement addition is also analyzed. Simultaneously, it also attempted to make a correlation between this two which finally can help to understand the process of peat-cement reactions. From the results, it has been seen that pH and electric conductivity are a good indicative parameter through which the variations of other important parameters can be related. Finally, from the correlation, it is seen that irrespective of all curing days, the electric conductivity increases with increase in pH. However, this increase in EC with pH increment is found to be high at higher percent of cement.
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Paul, A., Hussain, M. (2022). pH and Electrical Conductivity of Cement-Treated Peat. In: Dey, A.K., Mandal, J.J., Manna, B. (eds) Proceedings of the 7th Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference. IYGEC 2019. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 195. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6456-4_19
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