# Real-Time Behaviour of Dredged Slurry Treated by Air-Booster Vacuum Consolidation
## Appendix A  
For checking the applicability of Equation (5), we prepared slurry samples of different water contents and then conducted vane shear tests to obtain the soil cohesion. Slurry samples from two locations (i.e., Wenzhou and Taizhou from southeastern China) were adopted. The index properties of the Wenzhou slurry can be found in Table 3; while for the Taizhou slurry, its liquid limit (\(w_{L}\)), plastic limit (\(w_{P}\)) and specific gravity \(G_{s}\) were 37%, 10.01% and 2.67, respectively. Since the dredged slurry in engineering practice is of high water content, the slurry samples were prepared, with liquidity index (IL) covering the range 0.6-2.0. The prepared slurries were contained in tanks and then tested by the micro vane-shear apparatus. The measuring accuracy and range of the micro vane-shear apparatus were 0.5 kPa and 65 kPa, respectively, which are adequate for the tested slurries. The test results are presented in Figure 11, along with the predictions using Equation (6). The decreasing trend of slurry cohesion (c) with the increasing water content can be correctly described by Equation (5), and a better match can be observed between test results of Wenzhou slurry and predictions by the equation. For slurries of IL \(>\) 1, the predictions of Equation (5) are quite close to the test results of both the Taizhou and Wenzhou slurries. Because Wenzhou slurry with a liquidity index IL = 1.12 was tested in the model test, it is clear from the above that Equation (5) is applicable in predicting the slurry cohesion. * [PERSON] et al. (2015) [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON] Ground deformation induced by vacuum consolidation. _J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng._**2015**, _131_, 1552-1561. [CrossRef]
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