Shear Strength Behavior of Fiber-Reinforced Sand Considering Triaxial Tests under Distinct Stress Paths
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 133, Issue 11
Abstract
The results of drained triaxial tests on fiber reinforced and nonreinforced sand (Osorio sand) specimens are presented in this work, considering effective stresses varying from 20 to and a variety of stress paths. The tests on nonreinforced samples yielded effective strength envelopes that were approximately linear and defined by a friction angle of for the Osorio sand, with a cohesion intercept of zero. The failure envelope for sand when reinforced with fibers was distinctly nonlinear, with a well-defined kink point, so that it could be approximated by a bilinear envelope. The failure envelope of the fiber-reinforced sand was found to be independent of the stress path followed by the triaxial tests. The strength parameters for the lower-pressure part of the failure envelope, where failure is governed by both fiber stretching and slippage, were, respectively, a cohesion intercept of about and friction angle of . The higher-pressure part of the failure envelope, governed by tensile yielding or stretching of the fibers, had a cohesion intercept of , and friction angle of . No fiber breakage was measured and only fiber extension was observed. It is, therefore, believed that the fibers did not break because they are highly extensible, with a fiber strain at failure of , and the necessary strain to cause fiber breakage was not reached under triaxial conditions at these stress and strain levels.
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Acknowledgments
The writers wish to express their gratitude to PRONEX/FAPERGS (Process No. UNSPECIFIED04/0841.0) and CNPq—Brazilian Council of Scientific and Technological Research (Projects Produtividade em Pesquisa No. UNSPECIFIED300832/2004-4, Edital Universal 2004 No. UNSPECIFIED472643/2004-5 and Pós-Doutorado no Exterior No. UNSPECIFIED200957/2005-8) for their financial support to the research group.
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Received: Mar 31, 2006
Accepted: May 2, 2007
Published online: Nov 1, 2007
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