

Cemented soils are often seen as problematic materials, since they don't fit into the usual behaviour of transported soils. The accumulated experience in saprolitic residual soils of Portuguese granitic formations (Viana da Fonseca, 1988, 1996, in silty sands, and Rodrigues, 2003, in coarser granular soils) have pointed out to the possibility of working a critical state framework, aiming to define adequate models to characterize these naturally cemented soils. More recently, integrated in a PhD program (Cruz, 2010), a specific study on the applicability of critical state approach to artificially cemented soils, remoulded from the same coarse granitic soils studied by Rodrigues, was pursued. This involved an extensive laboratorial testing program performed over these mixtures with distinct cement contents. Overall, 40 unconfined, diametral and triaxial (CID) compressive tests were executed in samples mixed with different types of cement and percentages. The obtained results revealed the presence of different critical state lines (CSL) varying with cement content, suggesting a significant complexity to predict the ultimate state, as well as distinct behaviours for uncemented and cemented materials.