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- Title
Hydromechanical behaviour of expansive soils with different suctions and suction histories.
- Authors
Zhang, Junran; Sun, De'an; Zhou, Annan; Jiang, Tong
- Abstract
This paper presents a number of experimental results of suction-controlled triaxial tests on a compacted weakly expansive soil with different suctions and suction histories. In terms of suction control methods, the high suction level (from 3.29 to 38 MPa) was realized by the vapor equilibrium technique and the low suction level (from 0 to 800 kPa) was controlled by the axis translation technique. Results of the triaxial tests indicate that the specimen with higher suction shows higher strength and lower contractive and higher dilative volumetric strains, and the average skeleton stress ratio ( q/ p′) at failure decreases with increasing suction in the high suction range (3.29∼38 MPa). Given that suction during shearing is constant (e.g., 200 kPa), the specimen dried to a higher suction and the history shows higher strength and lower contractive volumetric strain. Experimental results also show that high pre-applied suction (i.e., the maximum suction in the history) can lead to peak strength, post-peak softening, and shear dilation. Three different methods (pressure plate, filter paper, and vapor equilibrium) were employed to study the soil-water retention behaviour of the unsaturated expansive soil. Test results indicate that by combining these three different methods, it is possible to determine the SWCC in the entire suction range (0∼367 MPa). Test results of the expansive soil also show that the void ratio keeps decreasing with increasing suction in the entire suction range.
- Subjects
REGOLITH; SWELLING soils; MEDICAL suction; VOLUMETRIC analysis; EQUILIBRIUM
- Publication
Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2016, Vol 53, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0008-3674
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/cgj-2014-0366