The application discloses a
soft clay electrochemical reinforcement device and method, the device comprising a power supply, an
anode, a
cathode, and an intermediate grouting
pipe; a cation exchange membrane is arranged in the area close to the
cathode of the soil body to be reinforced, the cation exchange membrane only allows the migration of cations from the inside of the soil body to the direction of the
cathode, and physically blocks the
reverse diffusion of anions generated by the cathode
electrolysis reaction to the direction of the soil body; the cation exchange membrane is wrapped on the outer surface of the cathode, or is arranged in the soil body around the cathode as an independent separation layer, forming an
ion filtering interface completely surrounding the cathode. The method sets a selectively permeable cation exchange membrane at the interface between the cathode and the soil body, and combines the step grouting process of
anode grouting first and then intermediate grouting
pipe grouting, thereby significantly improving the unit
energy consumption drainage capacity under the same
voltage, and increasing the soil body settlement in the cathode area by nearly 4 times, thus solving the
engineering problem of the traditional electro-
osmosis "hard
anode and soft cathode".