Laboratory Triaxial Test Study on Soil Reinforced with Roots of Manilagrass

2011 ◽  
Vol 250-253 ◽  
pp. 1366-1370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Fu Liu ◽  
Xiang Ru Yang ◽  
Xin Yu Xie ◽  
Chang Fu Wu ◽  
Yong Hai Liu

Laboratory triaxial tests of the soil reinforced with roots of Manilagrass were carried out in order to understand the stress-strain relationship. The change of shear strength indexes of the soil reinforced with roots of Manilagrass was investigated with the quantity of grassroots planted in the soil specimens. The results of laboratory triaxial tests show that the strength and capacity for resisting the deformation of soil reinforced with roots are better than those of unreinforced soil. And under the certain number of grassroots layers, the strength and capacity for resisting the deformation of soil reinforced with roots increase firstly and then reduce with the increasing of Manilagrass roots quantity. In other words, there is an optimal quantity of Manilagrass roots affecting the strength and capacity for resisting the deformation of soil reinforced with roots. The research results are important for understanding the mechanism and use of vegetation protection for slope.

2012 ◽  
Vol 446-449 ◽  
pp. 1573-1576
Author(s):  
Yuan Long Wang ◽  
Jun Gao Zhu ◽  
Jian Fang Zhou

The mechanical behaviors of a cohesive soil mixing with gravel were investigated in consolidated-drained triaxial tests. Three soils with different percentages of gravel mixed with the cohesive soil, i.e. 50%, 75% and 87.5%, were tested, and the inference of gravel percentage to the stress-strain behavior is investigated. The results indicate that the shear strength of the soil increases with the increase of gravel percentage. Compared to peak strength of GP50, that of GP75 and GP87.5 increases by 14.4%~32.8% and 20.9%~40.5%. The initial and secant Young’s modulus of the soil increases significantly when the gravel percentage is greater than 75%.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Ma ◽  
Yicong Yang ◽  
Henglin Xiao ◽  
Wenwen Xing

Laboratory triaxial tests were carried out to investigate the reinforcement mechanism, to study the characteristics of flax fiber-reinforced clay, and to discuss the effect on stress-strain relationship and shear strength parameters of flax fiber-reinforced clay in different flax fiber content and different confining pressure. Respectively, the ratio of fiber content to clay by weight is 0.2%, 0.4%, 0.6%, 0.8%, and 1.0%, and the confining pressure is 100 kPa, 200 kPa, and 300 kPa in triaxial test. The test results show that, the shear strength of flax fiber-reinforced clay is greater than that of pure clay. Compared with the pure clay, the shear strength of flax fiber-reinforced clay increased as the cohesion and friction increased; while the increase of the friction is relatively small, the increase of cohesion is large. The shear strength firstly increased and then reduced with the increase of flax fiber content. When the fiber content was 0.8%, the shear strength reached a peak value, and the shear strength reduced with the further increase of fiber content.


2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (10) ◽  
pp. 1096-1104 ◽  
Author(s):  
De'an Sun ◽  
Tugen Feng ◽  
Hajime Matsuoka

A middle-sized triaxial test apparatus for a specimen 20 cm in height and 10 cm in diameter was developed to measure the deformation and strength of weak rock or gravel. High-quality undisturbed samples of a weathered weak rock were taken from a dam site by a core drilling method. To avoid damage to the structure of the weak rock due to saturation of specimens as a result of measuring volume change through the water change in a burette, the lateral deformation of specimens was directly measured in the unsaturated condition using three rings mounted on the specimen. Using the developed triaxial test apparatus, isotropic compression tests and consolidated–drained triaxial compression tests were performed on unsaturated or saturated undisturbed samples under confining pressures of 49, 98, 196, 392, 539, and 683 kPa. The test results show that the stress–strain relationship of the weathered weak rock under both unsaturated and saturated conditions is strongly influenced by the confining pressure when the confining pressure is less than 392 kPa, and the stress–strain behaviour becomes similar to that of normally consolidated clay when the confining pressure is greater than 392 kPa. Comparison of results of triaxial tests on unsaturated and saturated specimens shows that the saturated samples become somewhat weak. The test results also show that the bonding and stress history largely influence the stress–strain relationship at small strain levels.Key words: weathered weak rock, microstructure, undisturbed sample, deformation, strength, triaxial test, unsaturated sample.


2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 831-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junhwan Lee ◽  
Rodrigo Salgado ◽  
J Antonio H Carraro

Soils behave nonlinearly from very early loading stages. When granular soils contain a certain amount of fines, the degree of nonlinearity also changes, as stiffness and strength characteristics vary with fines content. Hyperbolic stress–strain models and variations of these models are often used for description of the nonlinear behavior. A modified hyperbolic stress–strain relationship is used in this paper for representing the degradation of the elastic modulus of silty sands. The model is based on two modulus degradation parameters that determine the magnitude and rate of modulus degradation as a function of stress level. Realistic representation of soil behavior using this nonlinear relationship requires estimation of the degradation parameters as a function of silt content and relative density DR. A series of triaxial test results on sands containing different amounts of nonplastic silt were analyzed with this purpose. Relationships between the degradation parameters and cone penetration test (CPT) cone resistance qc are also proposed.Key words: hyperbolic model, silty sands, triaxial tests, modulus degradation, stress–strain response, shear strength, Gmax.


1986 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Negussey ◽  
Y. P. Vaid

A fundamental experimental study of sand behaviour under low stress ratio proportional loading wherein all strain components are contractant is presented. Experimentally observed behaviour under stress conditions of the triaxial test led to a coherent framework for representing proportional loading stress–strain response. The stress–strain relationship formulated incorporates relative density as an inherent independent state variable and does not require appeal to material isotropy. Key words: triaxial test, proportional loading, sand, relative density, energy density, stress increment, strain increment.


2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 53-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuo Tani ◽  
Takashi Nozaki ◽  
Susumu Kaneko ◽  
Yoshinori Toyo-Oka ◽  
Hideo Tachikawa

2020 ◽  
Vol 975 ◽  
pp. 203-207
Author(s):  
Shih Tsung Hsu ◽  
Wen Chi Hu ◽  
Yu Heng Lin ◽  
Zhuo Ling

Constitutive models for soils are usually adopted in numerical method to analyze the behavior of geotechnical structures. This study performs a series of consolidated-undrained triaxial tests to establish the stress-strain curve of clay. A constitutive model that considers continuous strain hardening-softening is proposed based on the results of triaxial tests. Triaxial test results reveal that undrained shear strength linearly increases with an increase in consolidated pressure , the normalized undrained shear strength is about 0.52 not only for this study but also for the other two cases around Taipei Basin. Due to undrained condition, an associated flow rule between plastic strain increment and stress tensor is adopted. As accumulative plastic strain or/and consolidated pressure change, the mobilized undrained shear strength also changes. All parameters needed for the proposed model can be expressed as a function of undrained shear strength Su, The mobilized undrained shear strength for the proposed model during strain hardening-softening can be in term of accumulative plastic strain. This model can calculate the stress-strain curves of clayed soils accurately.


2011 ◽  
Vol 250-253 ◽  
pp. 3183-3186
Author(s):  
Jian Yi Yuan

Subgrade diseases are exposed more and more serious with raising speed of existing railway in wide range. Fro the complexity of dynamic stress-strain relationship of soil, dynamic triaxial test was used to analyze .the dynamic mechanics behavior under cyclic train load for saturated soft clay in Yangtze Delta region. Compaction coefficient, confining pressure, dynamic shear strsss ratio, inputing stimulus and loading frequence were taken into account in test. The results show that the dynamic stress-strain curves of soil specimen are provided with prominent hysteretic characteristics and area surrounded by hysteretic curves gradually augment and slope of hysteretic curve decreases with the increase of dynamic shear train amplitude. The strong correlation exists between dynamical stress and strain.


2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syahmizzi Ifwat Bin Azharnim ◽  
Mohd Jamaludin Md. Noor

Effective stress and shear strength interaction which the stress – strain curves and mobilised shear strength envelope explained the actual volume change behaviour of the soils. The interaction that useful in prediction of stress – strain curves and unique relationship between Effective Mobilised Minimum Friction Angle and Axial Strain is important to predict the settlement at any effective stresses include the effective stress that not conducted in laboratory test. Consolidated drained triaxial test is conducted for saturated Banting CLAY and the volume change behaviour of Banting CLAY is presented from the concept of effective stress and shear strength interaction with the establishment of unique relationship between effective mobilised minimum friction angle with respect to axial strain and prediction of stress – strain curves for the saturated Banting CLAY.


1980 ◽  
Vol 25 (92) ◽  
pp. 289-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Desrues ◽  
F. Darve ◽  
E. Flavigny ◽  
J.P. Navarre ◽  
A. Taillefer

Abstract The behaviour of a snow mass under natural loadings (gravity forces, boundary conditions) can be computed by the finite-element method, in so far as a convenient formulation of the stress–strain relationship for snow is available. This paper deals with such a formulation given in incremental form. Experiments have been performed, which show that deposited snow can be considered as a non-linear visco-elastic material with memory effect. The proposed theoretical formulation takes into account these properties. The elastic part of the deformation is assumed to be isotropic and non-linear; the viscous part is expressed in terms of a creep-rate, which results from a superposition of elementary creep-rates according to Boltzmann’s principle. The values of parameters can be obtained from isotropic creep experiments. The experimental data and the resulting parameters are reported. Since the parameters were determined, the formulation of the rheological law was then tested by integration on “stress–strain paths" corresponding to other experiments of a different type, performed on the same snow. The experiments are triaxial tests at constant axial strain-rate, with a preliminary stage of isotropic compression. Experimental data are compared to theoretical curves obtained by integration of the rheological law. The calculated behaviour is consistent with the experimental results.


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