RIGID PIPE PROOF TESTING UNDER EXCESS OVERFILLS WITH VARYING BACKFILL PARAMETERS SECTION IV (VOLUME 2): EMBANKMENT SOILS ANALYSIS BY HARDIN MODEL

Soil samples taken from twelve different locations in a highway embankment at Cross Canyon (Route 07-LA-210) were subjected to unconsolidated - undrained triaxial tests at four levels of confining pressure, and results were analyzed using the Hardin soil model. The method provides soil parameters which may be used in the Culvert Analysis and Design program (CANDE). Comparisons between physical properties determined in the this manner and those estimated on the basis of degree of saturation, void ratio, etc., were very poor, suggesting that these properties cannot be used to make accurate estimates of elastic constants for soils. (FHWA)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Done in cooperation with DOT, FHWA.
• Corporate Authors:

  Smith (Wilbur) and Associates

  Office of Structures Design, 100 Boylston Street
  Boston, MA  United States  02116
• Authors:
  • Davis, R E
  • Semans, F M
  • Spannagel, D W
  • Bacher, A E
• Publication Date: 1978-10

Media Info

• Pagination: n.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Backfilling; Chemical analysis; Embankments; Field tests; Mathematical models; Overtopping; Piles (Supports); Pipe; Sampling; Saturated soils; Soil chemistry; Soils; Triaxial shear tests
• Old TRIS Terms: Backfills; Overfills; Soil analysis; Soil sampling; Underpinning piles; Undrained
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; I42: Soil Mechanics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00316409
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/CA/SD-78/06 Intrm Rpt., FCP 45I2-172
• Contract Numbers: D-4-133
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 30 1980 12:00AM