Unsaturated Constitutive Surfaces from Pressuremeter Tests
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Volume 130, Issue 2
Abstract
A methodology to identify the collapse potential of unsaturated soils is proposed in this paper on the basis of pressuremeter test results associated with independent measurements of the in situ matric suction. A solution combining the expansion of a cylindrical cavity to a modified Cam clay critical state model has been introduced and accommodated to the framework of unsaturated soil behavior. This accounts for changes in soil properties induced by suction changes. Interpretation of pressuremeter tests performed under unsaturated and soaked conditions links the amount of collapse to strength and stiffness changes and provides assessment to the constitutive soil parameters that are necessary to define the yield envelopes of the soil. A comprehensive site investigation program comprising field and laboratory tests carried out in two residual soil sites is discussed in order to validate the proposed methodology. Values of shear strength, in situ stress, and yield pressure derived from both field and laboratory data are used as input parameters of a constitutive model adopted for describing the yield envelopes of these unsaturated residual soil sites.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 130 • Issue 2 • February 2004
Pages: 174 - 185
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Received: Feb 15, 2001
Accepted: May 12, 2003
Published online: Jan 16, 2004
Published in print: Feb 2004
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