Closure to “In-Situ Shear Test for Rock Fills”

1976 ◽  
Vol 102 (5) ◽  
pp. 565-569
Author(s):  
Surendra P. Jain ◽  
Ramesh C. Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (22) ◽  
pp. 6531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zongxing Zou ◽  
Qi Zhang ◽  
Chengren Xiong ◽  
Huiming Tang ◽  
Lei Fan ◽  
...  

Slip zone soil is usually composed of clay or silty clay; in some special geological environments, it contains gravels, which make the properties of the slip zone soil more complex. Unfortunately, in many indoor shear tests, gravels are removed to meet the demands of apparatus size, and the in situ mechanical property of the gravelly slip zone soil is rarely studied. In this study, the shear mechanical property of the gravelly slip zone soil of Huangtupo landslide in the Three Gorges Reservoir area of China was investigated by the in situ shear test. The test results show that the shear deformation process of the gravelly slip zone soil includes an elastic deformation stage, elastic–plastic deformation stage, and plastic deformation stage. Four functions were introduced to express the shear constitutive model of the gravelly slip zone soil, and the asymmetric sigmoid function was demonstrated to be the optimum one to describe the relationship of the shear stress and shear displacement with a correlation coefficient of 0.986. The comparison between the in situ test and indoor direct shear test indicates that gravels increase the strength of the slip zone soil. Therefore, the shear strength parameters of the gravelly slip zone soil obtained by the in situ test are more preferable for evaluating the stability of the landslide and designing the anti-slide structures.


2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 795-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kopernik ◽  
A. Milenin ◽  
S. Kąc

Abstract The Polish left ventricular assist device (LVAD – RELIGA_EXT) will be made of thermoplastic polycarbonate-urethane (Bionate II) with deposited athrombogenic nano-coatings: gold (Au) and titanium nitride (TiN). Referring to the physical model, the two-scale model of LVAD developed in the previous works in the authors’ finite element code is composed of a macro-model of blood chamber and a micro-model of wall: TiN, Au and Bionate II. The numerical analysis of stress and strain states confirmed the possibility of fracture based on localization of zones of the biggest values of triaxiality factor. The introduction of Au interlayer between TiN and polymer improved the toughness of the connection, and increased the compressive residual stress in the coating what resulted in reduction of stress and strain close to the boundary between substrate and coating. However, the proper design of multilayer wall of the medical device requires the introduction of the real stress and strain states in the deposited coatings. The characteristics of TiN nano-coating such as residual stress, material model and fracture model were determined in the previously completed studies such as experimental and numercial nanoindentation tests, profilometry studies and in situ SEM’s micro-tension tests. The experimental in situ SEM’s micro-shear test was performed in the present paper and the corresponding numerical model of the test was also developed, and then, interpreted. The critical strains taken from experiment and considered as the effective strains in the model of test are the values which are the function of triaxiality factors for the tested samples. The developed in the authors’ FE code model of multilayer wall of VAD enriched with critical strain determined in the present paper enables prediction of fracture.


2008 ◽  
Vol 100 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 120-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Ramírez Oyanguren ◽  
C. González Nicieza ◽  
M.I. Álvarez Fernández ◽  
C. González Palacio

2013 ◽  
Vol 788 ◽  
pp. 615-618
Author(s):  
Yu Jun Lu ◽  
Xin Sheng Ge

In order to provide precise shear strength indexes for a building foundation pit supporting project, the second layer and the third layer of foundation soil were in-situ direct shear test. In-situ direct shear test has its own advantages in projects, and it simulates the real soil condition and reflects practical shear strength. But in-situ shear test requires lots of manpower, material resources and financial resources, so it is not convenient to carry out a lot in practical projects.


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