Critical State and Grading Evolution of Rockfill Material under Different Triaxial Compression Tests
Publication: International Journal of Geomechanics
Volume 20, Issue 2
Abstract
One of the most important features of soil behavior is the dependence of stress path. A series of large-scale triaxial compression tests was conducted to investigate the effect of stress path on critical state and particle breakage–induced grading evolution of rockfill material. All tests were first consolidated under constant principle stress ratio condition, and then sheared under three different stress paths, including constant lateral stress , constant mean effective stress , and constant vertical stress . Test results indicate that the mean effective stress , deviatoric stress , and void ratio along different stress paths reached the consistent critical state line (CSL) in the space. There was a power function between and , and a linear relation between and with at the critical state. The particle breakage under different stress paths was found to be consistent at the same critical state, and a unique relation among , , and the particle grading parameters at the critical state existed irrespective of stress paths. The test results at the critical state formed a straight line in the space.
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Data Availability Statement
All data used during the study are available from the corresponding author by request.
Acknowledgments
The authors acknowledge the financial support from the National Key R&D Plan (Grant No. 2017YFC0404902), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51678113 and 51608095) and the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities [Grant Nos. DUT19ZD216 and DUT18RC(3)046].
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Received: Dec 4, 2018
Accepted: Jun 11, 2019
Published online: Nov 30, 2019
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