BEHAVIOR OF DESTRUCTURED NATURAL CLAYS

Natural clays possess a structure as a result of the deposition environment, consolidation, aging, thixotropy, and cementation. To gain understanding on the relation between this structure and the behavior of natural clays, samples of three undisturbed clays have been tested in both the intact and the destructured states. The destructuration resulted in all cases in a modification of the shape of the limit state surface of the clay, in a reduction of its strength in the overconsolidated state, and in strong reductions of shear and bulk moduli. /ASCE/

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• Authors:
  • LEROUEIL, S
  • Tavenas, F
  • BRUCY, F
  • LA ROCHELLE, P
  • ROY, M
• Publication Date: 1979-6

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 759-778
• Serial:
  • Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Volume: 105
  • Issue Number: GT6
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 1090-0241
  • Serial URL: http://ojps.aip.org/gto

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Bonding; Bulk modulus; Clay; Consolidation; Deposition; Shear strength; Soil mechanics; Soils; Strength of materials; Thixotropy
• Uncontrolled Terms: Soil consolidation
• Old TRIS Terms: Deposition (Materials and soils)
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00196150
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: ASCE 14657 Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 17 1979 12:00AM