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Tensile strength of soils is often associated with tensile fractures that can generate a privileged flow path. The addition of bentonite improves the plastic properties of the soil, therefore the study was conducted for the compacted class F fly ash and fly ash with various bentonite additions. An amount of bentonite was: 5, 10 and 15%, calculated in weight relation to dry mass of samples. The tensile strength of compacted clay was also established, for comparison. Laboratory tests were carried out using the direct method (breaking) on cylindrical samples and the indirect method (the Brazilian test) on disc-shaped specimens. For this purpose, a universal testing machine with a frame load range of \u00b11 kN was used. It is stated that bentonite considerably influences the tensile strength of the fly ash evaluated with both methods. The tensile strength values obtained with the Brazilian method are comparable or higher than those obtained with the direct method. The achieved tensile strength values of compacted fly ash, improved by 10\u221215% of bentonite addition, are comparable with the results obtained for clay used in mineral sealing, while the strain at maximum tensile strength is similar in the direct test and lower in the indirect test.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ma15082887","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,18]],"date-time":"2022-04-18T04:21:28Z","timestamp":1650255688000},"page":"2887","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Tensile Strength of Class F Fly Ash and Fly Ash with Bentonite Addition as a Material for Earth Structures"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6376-1905","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mariola","family":"Wasil","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Bialystok University of Technology, Wiejska 45E Street, 15-351 Bialystok, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2823-6595","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Katarzyna","family":"Zabielska-Adamska","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Bialystok University of Technology, Wiejska 45E Street, 15-351 Bialystok, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"5","article-title":"The importance of tensile strength in geotechnical engineering","volume":"1","year":"2013","journal-title":"Acta Geotech. 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