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Volumetric strains of clean sands subject to cyclic loads / Pendo M. Duku in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, Vol. 134 n°8 (Août 2008) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering > Vol. 134 n°8 (Août 2008) . - pp. 1073–1085 Titre : Volumetric strains of clean sands subject to cyclic loads Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Pendo M. Duku, Auteur ; Stewart, Jonathan P., Auteur ; Daniel H. Whang, Auteur Année de publication : 2008 Article en page(s) : pp. 1073–1085 Note générale : Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Seismic  effects  Compression  Volume  change  Sand Résumé : We utilize simple shear testing to investigate the volume change of clean sands subject to cyclic loads. We examine the effects of a number of compositional and environmental factors on the vertical strain at 15 uniform shear strain cycles and on the cycle-to-cycle variation of vertical strain. The compositional factor found to principally affect seismic compression susceptibility is relative density. Compositional factors found to not significantly affect cyclic volume change include gradation parameters (mean grain size and uniformity coefficient), particle angularity, soil fabric, mineralogy, and void ratio “breadth” e-emin . An environmental factor found to affect seismic compression susceptibility is confining stress, with volumetric strains decreasing with increasing stress. Environmental factors that do not significantly affect seismic compression susceptibility for clean sands are saturation and age. Stress history can decrease vertical strains from seismic compression for certain conditions, but we find such effects to be insignificant for the levels of overburden stress where compacted fills are typically overconsolidated from compaction-induced stresses. An empirical model is developed to represent the major trends of the data for application in engineering practice, which improves upon an earlier model that is based on a much smaller database and does not account for the aforementioned environmental factors. En ligne : http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%291090-0241%282008%29134%3A8%2810 [...] [article] Volumetric strains of clean sands subject to cyclic loads [texte imprimé] / Pendo M. Duku, Auteur ; Stewart, Jonathan P., Auteur ; Daniel H. Whang, Auteur . - 2008 . - pp. 1073–1085. Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering > Vol. 134 n°8 (Août 2008) . - pp. 1073–1085 Mots-clés : Seismic  effects  Compression  Volume  change  Sand Résumé : We utilize simple shear testing to investigate the volume change of clean sands subject to cyclic loads. We examine the effects of a number of compositional and environmental factors on the vertical strain at 15 uniform shear strain cycles and on the cycle-to-cycle variation of vertical strain. The compositional factor found to principally affect seismic compression susceptibility is relative density. Compositional factors found to not significantly affect cyclic volume change include gradation parameters (mean grain size and uniformity coefficient), particle angularity, soil fabric, mineralogy, and void ratio “breadth” e-emin . An environmental factor found to affect seismic compression susceptibility is confining stress, with volumetric strains decreasing with increasing stress. Environmental factors that do not significantly affect seismic compression susceptibility for clean sands are saturation and age. Stress history can decrease vertical strains from seismic compression for certain conditions, but we find such effects to be insignificant for the levels of overburden stress where compacted fills are typically overconsolidated from compaction-induced stresses. An empirical model is developed to represent the major trends of the data for application in engineering practice, which improves upon an earlier model that is based on a much smaller database and does not account for the aforementioned environmental factors. En ligne : http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%291090-0241%282008%29134%3A8%2810 [...]