Cohesion value in the sandy soil is often neglected in geotechnical design as a conservative approach. However, recent work has shown that the stability of foundations and slopes can be considerably influenced and enhanced by the presence of even small amount of cohesion. Understanding the behavior of cemented soils under static and dynamic loading conditions is thus of significant interest to geotechnical engineers. To some extent, taking the advantages of those behaviors may reduce the construction cost of temporary or permanent earth structures.
   In this study, cohesion value was evaluated on lightly cemented sand in a series of drained triaxial compression test. Relationship between the degree of cementation and isotropic consolidation stress is also discussed. [This abstract is not included in the PDF]