Study on the Determination of Residual Shear Strength for Expansive Soil
Publication: Recent Advancement in Soil Behavior, in Situ Test Methods, Pile Foundations, and Tunneling: Selected Papers from the 2009 GeoHunan International Conference
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Generally, it is very difficult to obtain the undisturbed soil and keep it in the undisturbed state in practice. In this paper the residual shear strength of Grey-white expansive soil of Ningming was studied based on the analysis of the influencing factors of residual shear strength of expansive soil. The test results of undisturbed samples, compacted samples and samples prepared by static compaction conducted by strain-controlled repeated direct shear test were compared, which show that the differences of the peak shear strengths are very large but the differences of the residual shear strengths are very small. By the comparison and analysis of the test results, it is more reasonable and practical to use the residual shear strength of static compaction sample to represent that of undisturbed sample. Therefore, the residual shear strength (c=10.53 kPa, φ=11.55°) of samples prepared by static compaction can be taken as that of Ningming Grey-white expansive soil.
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© 2009 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Compacted soils
- Engineering fundamentals
- Expansive soils
- Fine-grained soils
- Geomechanics
- Geotechnical engineering
- Laboratory tests
- Material mechanics
- Material properties
- Materials engineering
- Residual soils
- Residual strength
- Shear strength
- Shear tests
- Soil analysis
- Soil mechanics
- Soil properties
- Soil strength
- Soils (by type)
- Strength of materials
- Tests (by type)
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