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Experimental parametric study of suffusion and backward erosion / Fateh Bendahmane in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, Vol. 134 N°1 (Janvier 2008) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering > Vol. 134 N°1 (Janvier 2008) . - pp. 57–67 Titre : Experimental parametric study of suffusion and backward erosion Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Fateh Bendahmane, Auteur ; Didier Marot, Auteur ; Alain Alexis, Auteur Année de publication : 2008 Article en page(s) : pp. 57–67 Note générale : Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Erosion  Triaxial  stress  Cohesive  soils  Soil  structure  Hydraulic  structures Résumé : Within hydraulic earth structures (dikes, levees, or dams), internal seepage flows can generate the entrainment of the soil grains. Grain transportation affects both particle size distributions and porosity, and changes the mechanical and hydraulic characteristics of the earth’s structure. The occurrence of failures in new earth structures due to internal erosion demonstrates the urgency of improving our knowledge of these phenomena of erosion. With this intention, a new experimental device has been developed that can apply hydraulic stresses to reconstituted consolidated cohesive soils without cracks in order to characterize the erosion evolution processes that might be present. A parametric study was conducted to examine the influence of three critical parameters on clay and sand erosion mechanisms. When the hydraulic gradient was low, it was concluded that the erosion of the structure’s clay fraction was due to suffusion. When the hydraulic gradient increased, it was concluded that the sand fraction erosion initiation was due to backward erosion. The extent of the erosion was dependent on the clay content. The study underlines the complexity of confinement stress effects on both erosion phenomena. En ligne : http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%291090-0241%282008%29134%3A1%2857 [...] [article] Experimental parametric study of suffusion and backward erosion [texte imprimé] / Fateh Bendahmane, Auteur ; Didier Marot, Auteur ; Alain Alexis, Auteur . - 2008 . - pp. 57–67. Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering > Vol. 134 N°1 (Janvier 2008) . - pp. 57–67 Mots-clés : Erosion  Triaxial  stress  Cohesive  soils  Soil  structure  Hydraulic  structures Résumé : Within hydraulic earth structures (dikes, levees, or dams), internal seepage flows can generate the entrainment of the soil grains. Grain transportation affects both particle size distributions and porosity, and changes the mechanical and hydraulic characteristics of the earth’s structure. The occurrence of failures in new earth structures due to internal erosion demonstrates the urgency of improving our knowledge of these phenomena of erosion. With this intention, a new experimental device has been developed that can apply hydraulic stresses to reconstituted consolidated cohesive soils without cracks in order to characterize the erosion evolution processes that might be present. A parametric study was conducted to examine the influence of three critical parameters on clay and sand erosion mechanisms. When the hydraulic gradient was low, it was concluded that the erosion of the structure’s clay fraction was due to suffusion. When the hydraulic gradient increased, it was concluded that the sand fraction erosion initiation was due to backward erosion. The extent of the erosion was dependent on the clay content. The study underlines the complexity of confinement stress effects on both erosion phenomena. En ligne : http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%291090-0241%282008%29134%3A1%2857 [...]