Small Strain Behaviour and Viscous Effects on Sands and Sand-Clay Mixtures

Author(s):  
H. Di Benedetto
Polymer ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 1495-1501 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.B. McKenna ◽  
L.J. Zapas

2013 ◽  
Vol 631-632 ◽  
pp. 782-788
Author(s):  
Cheng Chen ◽  
Zheng Ming Zhou

Soils have nonlinear stiffness and develops irrecoverable strains even at very small strain levels. Accurate modeling of stress-strain behaviour at various strain levels is very important for predicting the deformation of soils. Some existing stress-strain models are reviewed and evaluated firstly. And then a new simple non-linear stress-strain model is proposed. Four undetermined parameters involved in the proposed model can be obtained through maximum Young’s module, deformation module, and limit deviator stress and linearity index of soils that can be measured from experiment directly or calculated by empirical formulas indirectly. The effectiveness of the proposed stress-strain model is examined by predicting stress-strain curves measured in plane-strain compression test on Toyota sand and undrained triaxial compression test on London clay. The fitting results of the proposed model are in good agreement with experimental data, which verify the effectiveness of the model.


Géotechnique ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 62 (10) ◽  
pp. 943-947 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. TRHLíKOVá ◽  
D. MAšíN ◽  
J. BOHáč

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Vassallo ◽  
Claudio Mancuso ◽  
Filippo Vinale

This is the follow-up paper to Vassallo et al. (2007), which discussed the experimentally observed small-strain behaviour of an unsaturated compacted silt. The influence that suction and, more in general, mean net stress – suction history has on the initial shear stiffness was analysed and ascribed to the accumulation of irreversible volumetric strains. In this study, a model able to predict the observed behaviour is proposed, based on classical unsaturated soil volumetric hardening elastoplastic formulations. Starting from the interpretation of the results relative to simple stress paths, such as preliminary equalization and loading–unloading compression, the results of "complex" stress paths, such as those including drying–wetting cycles, have subsequently been modelled by introducing some additional parameters.Key words: unsaturated, compacted, small strain, stiffness, volumetric behaviour, stress history.


2016 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 260-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Heitor ◽  
Buddhima Indraratna ◽  
Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn

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