Transitional Behaviors in Well-Graded Coarse Granular Soils
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Abstract
Drained triaxial compression tests were carried out for a well-graded coarse granular soil (CGS) to investigate the effect of the initial specific volume on the location of the critical state line (CSL). A family of parallel CSLs in the plane was observed for the well-graded CGS, indicating that it exhibited transitional behavior. The degree of transitional behavior was quantified from the relationship between the intercepts of the CSLs and the initial specific volumes, giving a value of 0.59, which indicated a substantially transitional behavior. The observations of the CSL pattern in the CGS illustrated that transitional behavior could be extended to large-sized granular soils, beyond the usual transitional soils that have been observed so far, which generally have gradings between those of clean sand and plastic clay.
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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51509024) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 106112015CDJXY200008).
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Volume 142 • Issue 12 • December 2016
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Received: Jul 2, 2015
Accepted: Apr 5, 2016
Published online: Jul 15, 2016
Published in print: Dec 1, 2016
Discussion open until: Dec 15, 2016
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