Abstract
A series of one-dimensional consolidation tests were performed under varying pretreatments on high quality soil samples collected from a Singapore upper marine clay layer in an attempt to evaluate the effect of cementation by amorphous materials on its compressibility. The findings from this study seem to suggest that cementation by ethylene-diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) removable amorphous materials may only partially contribute to the development of soil microstructure and overconsolidation in Singapore upper marine clay.