MATRIC SUCTION AND DEFORMATION MONITORING AT AN EXPANSIVE SOIL SITE IN SOUTHERN CHINA
Buildings constructed on expansive soils often suffer damage due to shrinkage and heave of the soil as a result of seasonal climate change. There is a need for a better understanding of stress state and volume change behavior of an expansive soil in response to seasonal climate change. A field test site at Nanning, China, was designed and constructed cooperatively by researchers from China and Canada. Matric suction, ground movement, weather and other variables have been monitored at this site since April, 1992. The natural environment and instrumentation at the site are presented in this paper. Data obtained to-date show that the changes in matric suction and ground movement are correlated with climatic data. (A) For the covering abstract see IRRD 881647.
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Corporate Authors:
AA Balkema
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Authors:
- FREDLUND, D G
- CLIFTON, A W
- BARBOUR, S L
- HUANG, S K
- Wang, Q
- KE, Z J
- FAN, Q Y
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- Publication Date: 1995
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 855-61
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Conferences; Deformation; Field tests; Measurement; Measuring instruments; Soil suction; Soils; Swelling soils; Weather
- ITRD Terms: 6155: Apparatus (measuring); 8525: Conference; 5595: Deformation; 6226: In situ; 6136: Measurement; 4156: Soil; 5771: Suction; 5203: Swelling (soil); 2545: Weather
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Geotechnology;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00729148
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
- ISBN: 90-5410-583-6
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Dec 12 1996 12:00AM