Relationship between the Undrained Shear Strength, Water Content, and Mineralogical Properties of Fine-Grained Soils
Publication: International Journal of Geomechanics
Volume 5, Issue 4
Abstract
The relationship between the undrained shear strength of fine-grained soils and the water content can be described with a nonlinear function in which the type of soil is determined by two parameters. It is well known that these parameters depend mainly on the mineral compositions of soils; these relationships, however, have not yet been investigated. The findings described in this paper define those mineralogical properties of soils which determine the values of both parameters. Experimentally obtained results suggest that the parameters primarily depend on the size of the clay minerals, their quantity in soil composition, and the interlayer water quantity in the expanding clay minerals. As this dependence is well defined, the parameters, and thus the undrained shear strength at different water content, can be defined from knowledge of these mineralogical soil properties.
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International Journal of Geomechanics
Volume 5 • Issue 4 • December 2005
Pages: 350 - 355
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© 2005 ASCE.
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Received: Mar 5, 2004
Accepted: Dec 23, 2004
Published online: Dec 1, 2005
Published in print: Dec 2005
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