STRAIN RATE BEHAVIOR OF COMPACTED SILT

Strain controlled triaxial tests of the consolidated-drained type on compacted samples of a clavey silt show that the deviator stress at fialure increases with increasing rate of axial strain up to a certain critical confining pressure, beyond which the deviator stress at failure decreases with increasing stain rate. A change in the cohesional component of the shear strength due to a change in the axial strain rate is generally accompanied by an opposite change in the angle of internal friction. Further, samples consolidated at confining pressures greater than the critical pressure when sheared at strain rates slower than 0.083% per min yield values of cohesion and friction angle that are independent of the confining pressure. Only the developed friction angles appear to be unaffected by a moisture content change. The ultimate bearing capacity of a one foot diam circular foundation estimated from the laboratory determined c-phi values undergo a two to three-fold change as the failure time is increased from 50 min to 500 min. /ASCE/

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• Authors:
  • Roy, N
  • Sarathi, P
• Publication Date: 1976-4

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 347-360
• Serial:
  • Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Volume: 102
  • Issue Number: GT4
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 1090-0241
  • Serial URL: http://ojps.aip.org/gto

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bearing capacity; Clay soils; Coefficient of internal friction; Cohesion; Deviatoric stress; Failure; Foundations; Mechanical strain; Moisture content; Pressure; Properties of materials; Shear strength; Silts; Soil compaction; Soils; Triaxial shear tests
• Uncontrolled Terms: Axial strain; Strain rate
• Old TRIS Terms: Critical pressure; Deviator stress; Foundations (Structures); Soil characteristics
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00133980
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proc. Paper #12024
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 5 1976 12:00AM