Quantification of Swelling Pressure of Expansive Soils: A Critical Review
Publication: Geo-Congress 2024
ABSTRACT
The magnitude of swelling pressures must be accurately estimated/predicted using appropriate methods for a safe design and performance of pertinent geotechnical infrastructure on expansive soils. This paper reviews various methods used by researchers in the past decades to quantify swelling pressure in different directions. Methods reported in literature for the determination of swelling pressure can be categorized into experimental, analytical, and numerical studies. Laboratory methods are affected by scaling and boundary effects, whereas fields tests are time consuming and expensive; however, numerical models with appropriate validation can predict swelling pressures efficiently. Various factors that affect swelling pressures are clay mineralogy, dry density, initial water content, boundary conditions, and matric suction. In the present critical review, it is observed that matric suction, a significant factor affecting the swelling behavior of unsaturated expansive soil, was considered in only a few studies.
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Geo-Congress 2024
Pages: 396 - 403
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Published online: Feb 22, 2024
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Analysis (by type)
- Continuum mechanics
- Dynamic pressure
- Dynamics (solid mechanics)
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering mechanics
- Expansive soils
- Fine-grained soils
- Geomechanics
- Geotechnical engineering
- Methodology (by type)
- Models (by type)
- Numerical analysis
- Numerical methods
- Numerical models
- Pressure (type)
- Soil dynamics
- Soil mechanics
- Soil pressure
- Soil properties
- Soil suction
- Soils (by type)
- Solid mechanics
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