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A Simple Approach of Estimating the Shear Strength Parameters for Unsaturated Soil-Aggregate Systems  

Park, Seong-Wan (Dept. of Civil & Environ. Engrg., Dankook Univ.)
Kim, Yong-Rak (Dept. of Civil Engrg., Texas A&M Univ.)
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Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society / v.19, no.3, 2003 , pp. 75-82 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents the results of a study that was performed to evaluate fronds of shear strength parameters in stabilization of unbound soil-aggregate systems based on the theory of unsaturated soil mechanics. Two important shear strength parameters, effective cohesion and effective angle of internal friction were estimated by the proposed approach using the results from suction measurements and unconfined compressive strength test. In addition, the effect of different addition rates of stabilizing agent was compared. Due to the stabilization process, an increase in suction potential on engineering properties of geomaterials was observed by using dielectric constant measurements. In conclusion, the results from this study show that the proposed approach can be simply used for predicting shear strength parameters of the stabilized geomaterials.
Keywords
Angle of friction; Cohesion; Geomaterials; Shear strength; Soil suction; Stabilization; Unsaturated soils;
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