Research Article

Effects of Clay and Moisture Content on Direct Shear Tests for Clay-Sand Mixtures

Table 2

Chemical composition of Al-Qatif clay.

K+ (%) K2O (%)Al (%)Al2O3 (%)Si (%)SiO2 (%)Ca2+ (%)CaO (%)

1.82.23.36.38.117.30.70.9

After Dafalla et al. [4].