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Experimental Studies of Shearing Properties on Compacted Nakdong River Silty Sands under Unconsolidated Undrained Condition  

Khin, Swe Tint (Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engrg, Gyeongsan University College)
Kim, Young-Su (Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engrg, Kyungpook National Univ.)
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Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society / v.11, no.12, 2010 , pp. 57-62 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, the effect of different silt contents on the shear characteristics of silty sands was evaluated. Two series of triaxial compression tests were performed on the cylindrical specimens of compacted Nakdong river sand with 10% and 30% silt contents under unconsolidated undrained condition. All identical specimens were prepared to compact with same initial water content for five layers and saturated using control panel and then sheared under initial effective confining pressure, 100 to 400kPa. All specimens exhibited a strain softening tendency after failure in stress-strain curves and deviator stresses of specimens with 10% silt content were greater than those of specimens with 30% silt content. Pore water pressures of specimens with 10% silt content were observed negative(i.e. swelling) due to increasing void ratio after failure but those of specimens with 30% silt content were shown only positive. The behavior of compacted cylindrical specimens with low silt content was more dilative than that of high silt content. Peak deviator stresses decreased as increasing silt content and peak pore water pressures increased as increasing silt content.
Keywords
Stress-strain; Pore water pressure; Silty sands; Dilatancy; Triaxial test; Mohr circle;
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