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http://dx.doi.org/10.7843/kgs.2013.29.5.39

Ring Shear Characteristics of Two Different Soils  

Park, Sung-Sik (Dept. of Civil Eng., Kyungpook National Univ.)
Jeong, Sueng-Won (Geologic Environment Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Yoon, Jun-Han (Dept. of Civil Eng., Kyungpook National Univ.)
Chae, Byung-Gon (Geologic Environment Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
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Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society / v.29, no.5, 2013 , pp. 39-52 More about this Journal
Abstract
The shear stress characteristics of landslide materials can be affected by various factors. We examined the shear stress characteristics of two different soils using ring-shear apparatus, in which saturation-consolidation-shearing speed can be easily controlled. This paper presents (i) shear stress-time characteristics, (ii) shear stress depending on normal stress and shear speed and (iii) shear stress as a function of shearing speed. Materials used in this paper were the Nakdong River sand and muds taken from Jinhae coastal area in Korea. Samples were prepared in three types: Sand (upper)-Sand (lower), Clay (upper)-Clay (lower) and Sand (upper)-Clay (lower). The upper and lower indicate the samples placed in upper and lower ring shear boxes, respectively. For given normal stresses (50 and 100 kPa) and shearing speed (0.1 mm/sec), we performed ring shear tests. Then the failure lines were determined in the second test. Last, we determined the shear stress characteristics depending on different shearing speeds, such as 0.01, 0.1, 1, 10, 100 mm/sec. As a result, we found that shear stress characteristics are strongly dependent on above three factors. The shear stress of Sand (upper)-Clay (lower) is smaller than that of Sand (upper)-Sand (lower), but slightly larger than that of Clay (upper)-Clay (lower). The shear stress is also characterized by grain crushing and wetting process at slip surface.
Keywords
Ring-shear apparatus; Different soil layers; Friction angle; Sand; Clay;
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