Abstract:
Soil adhesion is one of the
important factors in measuring the amount
of energy consumption. In this paper, the
effect of temperature on the amount of clay
soil adhesion was investigated. The soil
used in this research was saturated clay
mud. In order to measure adhesion, a
specific instrument was designed. The
dimensions of the metal plate were
210×70×20 mm and its weight was 2.5 kgf.
The metal plate alloy was st37. The
adhesion was calculated from the difference
between weight of water used for clearing
the metal plate of the soil and the weight of
the metal plate. Six levels of temperature
from 5 to 30°c were applied. A refrigerator
and an oven were used for getting the
required temperature. The test was
performed three times for each level.
Results showed that an increase in
temperature from 5 to 30°c decreases the
soil adhesion. Three equations such as linear
polynomial, exponential and quadratic
polynomial correlated with the experimental
data and the result showed that the quadratic
polynomial model had the best correlation
with experimental data.
