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Influence of osmotic suction on the soil-water characteristic curves of compacted expansive clay / T. Thyagaraj in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, Vol. 136 N° 12 (Décembre 2010) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering > Vol. 136 N° 12 (Décembre 2010) . - pp.1695-1702 Titre : Influence of osmotic suction on the soil-water characteristic curves of compacted expansive clay Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : T. Thyagaraj, Auteur ; Sudhakar M. Rao, Auteur Année de publication : 2011 Article en page(s) : pp.1695-1702 Note générale : Géotechnique Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Clays  Unsaturated  soils  Suction  Laboratory  tests  Expansive  soils Index. décimale : 624.1 Infrastructures.Ouvrages en terre. Fondations. Tunnels Résumé : Unsaturated clays are subject to osmotic suction gradients in geoenvironmental engineering applications and it therefore becomes important to understand the effect of these chemical concentration gradients on soil-water characteristic curves (SWCCs). This paper brings out the influence of induced osmotic suction gradient on the wetting SWCCs of compacted clay specimens inundated with sodium chloride solutions/distilled water at vertical stress of 6.25 kPa in oedometer cells. The experimental results illustrate that variations in initial osmotic suction difference induce different magnitudes of osmotic induced consolidation and osmotic consolidation strains thereby impacting the wetting SWCCs and equilibrium water contents of identically compacted clay specimens. Osmotic suction induced by chemical concentration gradients between reservoir salt solution and soil-water can be treated as an equivalent net stress component, (pπ) that decreases the swelling strains of unsaturated specimens from reduction in microstructural and macrostructural swelling components. The direction of osmotic flow affects the matric SWCCs. Unsaturated specimens experiencing osmotic induced consolidation and osmotic consolidation develop lower equilibrium water content than specimens experiencing osmotic swelling during the wetting path. The findings of the study illustrate the need to incorporate the influence of osmotic suction in determination of the matric SWCCs. DEWEY : 624.1 ISSN : 1090-0241 En ligne : http://ascelibrary.org/gto/resource/1/jggefk/v136/i12/p1695_s1?isAuthorized=no [article] Influence of osmotic suction on the soil-water characteristic curves of compacted expansive clay [texte imprimé] / T. Thyagaraj, Auteur ; Sudhakar M. Rao, Auteur . - 2011 . - pp.1695-1702. Géotechnique Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering > Vol. 136 N° 12 (Décembre 2010) . - pp.1695-1702 Mots-clés : Clays  Unsaturated  soils  Suction  Laboratory  tests  Expansive  soils Index. décimale : 624.1 Infrastructures.Ouvrages en terre. Fondations. Tunnels Résumé : Unsaturated clays are subject to osmotic suction gradients in geoenvironmental engineering applications and it therefore becomes important to understand the effect of these chemical concentration gradients on soil-water characteristic curves (SWCCs). This paper brings out the influence of induced osmotic suction gradient on the wetting SWCCs of compacted clay specimens inundated with sodium chloride solutions/distilled water at vertical stress of 6.25 kPa in oedometer cells. The experimental results illustrate that variations in initial osmotic suction difference induce different magnitudes of osmotic induced consolidation and osmotic consolidation strains thereby impacting the wetting SWCCs and equilibrium water contents of identically compacted clay specimens. Osmotic suction induced by chemical concentration gradients between reservoir salt solution and soil-water can be treated as an equivalent net stress component, (pπ) that decreases the swelling strains of unsaturated specimens from reduction in microstructural and macrostructural swelling components. The direction of osmotic flow affects the matric SWCCs. Unsaturated specimens experiencing osmotic induced consolidation and osmotic consolidation develop lower equilibrium water content than specimens experiencing osmotic swelling during the wetting path. The findings of the study illustrate the need to incorporate the influence of osmotic suction in determination of the matric SWCCs. DEWEY : 624.1 ISSN : 1090-0241 En ligne : http://ascelibrary.org/gto/resource/1/jggefk/v136/i12/p1695_s1?isAuthorized=no