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- Title
The Difference in Shear Behavior and Strength between Loess and Paleosol and Their Prediction of Unsaturated Strength.
- Authors
Liu, Pan; Dai, Fuchu; Huang, Zhiquan; Wu, Jiaqi
- Abstract
In recent decades, loess landslide events have attracted increasing attention in the South Jingyang tableland. To elucidate the mechanical mechanism of landslide initiation in the region, this work collected undisturbed loess and paleosol samples taking from the Q2 strata in the South Jingyang tableland. A range of direct shear tests were carried out to explore the strength evolution law of shear zone soil subjected to a varying initial moisture content. In addition, soil water characteristic curves (SWCCs) were also charted and used for predicting the unsaturated shear strength. The findings show that the basic physical properties of the paleosol are different from those of loess due to their different pedogenic environments. The normal stress level and initial moisture content jointly determine whether the shear behavior is strain hardening or strain softening. The shear strength and strength parameters evidently diminish with an increasing initial moisture content, and cohesion contributes to the vast majority of strength attenuation. Paleosol samples possess higher values in shear strength and strength parameters than loess samples due to their stronger inter-particle cementation. The predictive formulas of unsaturated shear strength for undisturbed loess and paleosol are proposed, respectively, based on the Vanapalli model, and the calculated values of the strength prediction model are in perfect agreement with the experimental values.
- Subjects
SHEAR strength; PALEOPEDOLOGY; LOESS; STRAIN hardening; SHEAR zones; LANDSLIDES; SHEAR strength of soils
- Publication
Applied Sciences (2076-3417), 2024, Vol 14, Issue 8, p3301
- ISSN
2076-3417
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/app14083301