Development of a Constitutive Model to Predict the Behavior of Cement-Treated Clay during Cementation Degradation: C3 Model
Publication: International Journal of Geomechanics
Volume 17, Issue 7
Abstract
Many researchers have indicated how cementation allows treated soft clays to sustain a higher yield mean effective stress at the same void ratio as its reconstituted state, and thus, the strength of clay treated with cement increases because the cement and clay particles bond together. However, the void ratio of cement-treated clay decreases significantly in isotropic consolidation and triaxial conditions when subjected to a high mean effective stress, particularly beyond the initial yield stress. Laboratory experiments have shown that the cementation of clay gradually diminishes as the mean effective stress increases as a result of the degradation of cementation bonds. Thus, the failure envelope of cement-treated clay gradually merges with the reconstituted clay–cement mixture at high mean effective stresses. Furthermore, the shear strength of cement-treated clay is influenced by the shear degradation induced by shear deformation. In this study, by combining the mean effective stress and shear degradation, a constitutive model, referred to as the C3 model, based on the critical state framework, was developed to simulate the behavior of cement-treated clay. The proposed model includes a modified mean effective stress, a nonlinear failure envelope, a nonassociated plastic potential function, and a general stress-strain relationship to simulate the prepeak and postpeak deviatoric stress states, including the softening behavior of cement-treated clay. In this study, triaxial tests (drained and undrained) were conducted on Ballina clay treated with 10 and 12% cement and Kaolin clay treated with 5 and 10% cement, and the results are reported and discussed. The proposed model was evaluated by comparing its predictions with the triaxial test results reported on the cement-treated Ballina clay and Kaolin clay. The proposed constitutive model gave reliable predictions that agreed with the experimental results and captured the main features of cement-treated clays.
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Volume 17 • Issue 7 • July 2017
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Received: Mar 1, 2016
Accepted: Oct 20, 2016
Published online: Feb 3, 2017
Published in print: Jul 1, 2017
Discussion open until: Jul 3, 2017
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