[article]
Titre : |
Shear strength investigations for a class of extraterrestrial analogue soils |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Christos Vrettos, Auteur |
Année de publication : |
2012 |
Article en page(s) : |
pp. 508–515 |
Note générale : |
Géologie appliquée |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Mots-clés : |
Soils Particle size distribution Shear strength Dilatancy Lunar materials |
Résumé : |
A class of granular materials is presented that was obtained from quarried intrusive igneous rock, further processed to match the grain-size distribution of typical Apollo samples. Texture, mineralogy, and chemical composition have been investigated; and the material is classified as basaltic andesite. A series of triaxial compression tests have been performed to assess the influence of confining stress on the shearing behavior at medium to low stress levels. A medium sand is used as reference. In one of the test series, corundum was added to simulate the glass particles found in the lunar regolith. Both stress-strain curves and volumetric strains are reported. All samples tested exhibit a purely dilatant behavior at low confining stress levels. Shear strength can be expressed either by a curved Mohr-Coulomb envelope or by a linear one with a cohesion intercept. Results are shown to agree well with those obtained on common lunar soil simulants. |
DEWEY : |
624.1 |
ISSN : |
1090-0241 |
En ligne : |
http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29GT.1943-5606.0000619 |
in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering > Vol. 138 N° 4 (Avril 2012) . - pp. 508–515
[article] Shear strength investigations for a class of extraterrestrial analogue soils [texte imprimé] / Christos Vrettos, Auteur . - 2012 . - pp. 508–515. Géologie appliquée Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering > Vol. 138 N° 4 (Avril 2012) . - pp. 508–515
Mots-clés : |
Soils Particle size distribution Shear strength Dilatancy Lunar materials |
Résumé : |
A class of granular materials is presented that was obtained from quarried intrusive igneous rock, further processed to match the grain-size distribution of typical Apollo samples. Texture, mineralogy, and chemical composition have been investigated; and the material is classified as basaltic andesite. A series of triaxial compression tests have been performed to assess the influence of confining stress on the shearing behavior at medium to low stress levels. A medium sand is used as reference. In one of the test series, corundum was added to simulate the glass particles found in the lunar regolith. Both stress-strain curves and volumetric strains are reported. All samples tested exhibit a purely dilatant behavior at low confining stress levels. Shear strength can be expressed either by a curved Mohr-Coulomb envelope or by a linear one with a cohesion intercept. Results are shown to agree well with those obtained on common lunar soil simulants. |
DEWEY : |
624.1 |
ISSN : |
1090-0241 |
En ligne : |
http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29GT.1943-5606.0000619 |
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