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- Title
Semi-empirical elastic-thermoviscoplastic model for clay.
- Authors
Kurz, David; Sharma, Jitendra; Alfaro, Marolo; Graham, Jim
- Abstract
Clays exhibit creep in compression and shear. In one-dimensional compression, creep is commonly known as 'secondary compression' even though it is also a significant component of deformations resulting from shear straining. It reflects viscous behaviour in clays and therefore depends on load duration, stress level, the ratio of shear stress to compression stress, strain rate, and temperature. Research described in the paper partitions strains into elastic (recoverable) and plastic (nonrecoverable) components. The plastic component includes viscous strains defined by a creep rate coefficient ψ that varies with plasticity index and temperature ( T), but not with stress level or overconsolidation ratio (OCR). Earlier elastic-viscoplastic (EVP) models have been modified so that ψ = ψ( T) in a new elastic-thermoviscoplastic (ETVP) model. The paper provides a sensitivity analysis of simulated results from undrained (CIŪ) triaxial compression tests for normally consolidated and lightly overconsolidated clays. Axial strain rates range from 0.15%/day to 15%/day, and temperatures from 28 to 100 °C.
- Subjects
VISCOPLASTICITY; THERMOPLASTIC composites; CLAY; CREEP (Materials); SHEAR strain; DEFORMATIONS (Mechanics); TEMPERATURE
- Publication
Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2016, Vol 53, Issue 10, p1583
- ISSN
0008-3674
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/cgj-2015-0598