Atterberg limits and strength relationships of oil sands tailings

As a result, existing methods for describing natural clay behaviour, including Atterberg limits and relationships between remoulded undrained shear strength and liquidity index, have been used to characterize oil sands tailings.

A laboratory research program was undertaken to evaluate the use of these methods for oil sands tailings and develop a material-specific correlation between remoulded undrained shear strength and liquidity index. This dataset is a supplement to the associated journal article that presents the results of this research program. It includes a review of existing published data and experimental results to support the development of a mathematical relationship between remoulded undrained shear strength and liquidity index.