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Three-dimensional elasto-plastic model for unsaturated compacted soils with different initial densities. (English) Zbl 1042.74541

Summary: This paper presents an elasto-plastic model for unsaturated compacted soils and experimental results obtained from a series of suction-controlled triaxial tests on unsaturated compacted clay with different initial densities. The initial density dependence of the compacted soil behaviour is modelled by establishing experimental relationships between the initial density and the corresponding yield stress, and thereby between the initial density and the location and slope of normal compression line. The model is generalized to three-dimensional stress states by assuming that the shapes of the failure surface and the yield surface in the deviatoric plane are given by the extended SMP criterion. A considerable number of the isotropic compression, triaxial compression and extension tests on unsaturated compacted clay with different initial densities were performed using a suction-controllable triaxial apparatus, to measure the stress-strain-volume change in different stress paths and wetting paths. The model has well-predicting capabilities to reproduce the mechanical behaviour of specimens compacted under different conditions not only in isotropic compression but also in triaxial compression and triaxial extension.

MSC:

74L10 Soil and rock mechanics
74C05 Small-strain, rate-independent theories of plasticity (including rigid-plastic and elasto-plastic materials)
74-05 Experimental work for problems pertaining to mechanics of deformable solids
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