STRENGTH AND DEFORMATION PROPERTIES OF ROCK FILL

During the past 25 years there has been a large increase in the use of rock fill materials for the construction of high dams and embankments. The South Pacific (SPD) Laboratory of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (CE) has been engaged in developing equipment and methods to determine the strength and deformation properties of such materials since 1953. This report presents summaries of previously published but not generally available reports prepared by the SPD Laboratory dealing with the influence of gradation, confining pressure, relative density, and engineering properties of individual aggregate particles on the consolidated-drained strength and deformation properties of gravelly materials. Also presented in the report are results of additional unpublished laboratory investigations performed on rock fill materials by the SPD Laboratory dealing with the influence of end restraint and particle shape on consolidated-drained characteristics and with the influence of particle size on one-dimensional consolidation characteristics. /Author/

• Corporate Authors:

  U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station

  3909 Halls Ferry Road
  Vicksburg, MS  United States  39180-6199
• Authors:
  • Donaghe, R T
  • Cohen, M W
• Publication Date: 1978-1

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 98 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aggregate gradation; Consolidations; Dams; Deformation; Embankments; Gravel; Pressure; Rockfills; Specific gravity; Strength of materials
• Old TRIS Terms: Gradation
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00174426
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Tech. Report S-78-1 Final Rpt.
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 14 1978 12:00AM