scholarly journals PRELIMINARY STUDY ON PLASTICINE AS A SUBSTITUTE COHESIVE MATERIAL FOR GEOTECHNICAL PHYSICAL SOIL MODELING

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Yusep Muslih Purwana ◽  
Bambang Setiawan ◽  
Raden Harya Danajaya ◽  
Brilliant Bagaskara
Keyword(s):  
Oil Content ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Engineering Properties ◽  
Kaolin Clay ◽  
Petroleum Jelly ◽  
Stress Strain ◽  
Artificial Material ◽  
Strain Behaviour ◽  
Ucs Test ◽  
Cohesive Material

<p>Plasticine is an artificial material made from solids such as gypsum, lime, mixed with petroleum jelly or micro wax and acid fat. The properties of plasticine are likely similar to natural clay and is influenced by oil content. The information about mechanical properties of plasticine is still very rare, and as such the study on it is riquired and must be conducted intensively. The preliminary laboratory study has been conducted to understand the behaviour of plasticines. Microwax and petroleum jelly based plasticines were utilised with the variation of oil content, whereas kaolin clay with the variation of water content is utilised as a reference material. The study is focusing on the stress-strain behaviour for both microwax and petroleum jelly based plasticines compared to the stress-strain behaviour of kaolin clay. This paper reports the result of preliminary investigation regarding the use of plasticine as an alternative artificial material for substitution of clay in soil modeling. Some engineering properties from unconfined compression strength (UCS) test and hand penetrometer are shown. The result indicates that the stress-strain behaviour of plasticine resembles the stress-strain behaviour of kaolin clay. The plasticine is suitable as a substitute cohesive material and it has a potential to be utilised for geotechnical material modelling in the future.</p>

A New Nonlinear Stress-Strain Model for Soils at Various Strain Levels

2013 ◽  
Vol 631-632 ◽  
pp. 782-788
Author(s):  
Cheng Chen ◽  
Zheng Ming Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Compression Test ◽  
Triaxial Compression ◽  
Small Strain ◽  
Empirical Formulas ◽  
Stress Strain ◽  
Strain Behaviour ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Nonlinear Stress ◽  
London Clay ◽  
Strain Model

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.

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