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Measurement of Shear Modulus at Small Strains using Cone Pressuremeter Test  

Yi, Chang-Tok ((주)두우건설엔지니어링 기술연구소)
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Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection / v.9, no.1, 2005 , pp. 135-145 More about this Journal
Abstract
Geotechnical design routinely requires that in-situ strength, stiffness of the ground be determined. In the working stress conditions, the strain level in a ground experienced by existing structures and during construction is less than about 0.1%~1%. In order to analyze the deformational behavior accurately, the in-situ testing technique which provides the reliable deformational characteristics at small strains, needs to be developed. Cone pressuremeter tests were performed on the western off-shore region of korea, and analyzed using cavity expansion theory and curve fitting technique to obtain the shear modulus at small strain level of $10^{-1}%$. The value of $E_u/S_u$ ratio for the marine clay shows about 589 at the small strain. However the value of $E_u/S_u$ estimated by lab tests are much smaller values ranged from 81 to 91. It is indicated that the curve fitting technique from CPM tests results can be used to obtain the shear modulus at small strain.
Keywords
Cone pressuremeter; Unloading; Curve fitting; Small strain;
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