Experimental Study on Influence of Stress Path on the Constitutive Relations for Reshaped Clay

In order to study the influence of stress path on the constitutive relations for reshaped clay,the triaxial compression tests under stress paths with drainage in cases of increased,constant and decreased mean normal stress and undrained conventional triaxial compression test have been carried out,the stress-strain relations under the four stress paths are obtained.Through visualization the three-dimensional surfaces of shear and volume strain in the whole stress field under the four stress paths are given respectively by numerical modeling.In addition,the four families of shear and volume yield loci are plotted respectively.It is found through comparing the deformation results under the four stress paths that there are obvious differences in the stress ranges,the strain peaks,the shapes of strain surfaces and the trends of variation of volume yield loci,however,for the four families the shear yield loci are similar.These results demonstrate that the influence of stress path on the constitutive relations of clay is considerably large and could not be neglected,and it relates to the effective mean normal stress closely.     

Test on engineering properties of unsaturated undisturbed loess Q2

A series of triaxial shear tests with controlled constant confining pressure are conducted to study the failure modes, effects of deformation, strength and yield properties of unsaturated undisturbed loess Q2, with improved SJ-1A triaxial shear equipment. The test results show that the failure mode of unsaturated undisturbed loess Q2 is shear failure with the rupture angle between 55 and 61 degree; Shear dilatancy is shown under low confining pressure, and shear shrinkage is shown under high confining pressure; The stress-strain curves of undisturbed loess Q2 will change from perfectly plastic to weak strain softening as the confining pressure increases; A effective method is suggested to identify the field stress of undisturbed loess Q2 under triaxial shear condition with the curves of - q/p ; when the confining pressure increases, the deviatoric yield stress qy has a logarithmic relationship with net mean yield stress py .     

Tests with Controlled Net Mean Stress Equaling Constant of an Remolded Unsaturated Loess

The disruption, yield and water content change of a remolded unsaturated loess is studied during the course of shear tests with controlled net mean stress equaling constant. Two types of density's triaxial drained shear tests with controlled net mean stress and suction equaling constants are conducted. The test results show that the disruption stress increases with suction. A new method to identify the field stress under triaxial drained shear tests with controlled net mean stress equaling constants is suggested, and the shape of loading-collapse yield curve are similar in q-s plane and in p-s plane. The soil-water characteristic curve is dependent on deviatoric stress, and the soil-water characteristic curve including water content, suction, net mean stress and deviatoric stress is proposed.     

各向异性砂土剪切带角度的理论分析

针对平面应变条件下各向异性砂土剪切带角度的试验规律,采用传统的3种理论和分叉理论进行对比分析。将平面应变条件下剪切带角度的试验结果按照传统3种理论整理发现,尽管传统3种理论可以估算同种砂剪切带角度的极小、中间和极大值,但无法解释其各向异性规律。砂土在平面应变条件下破坏时会产生明显的剪切带,当剪切带方向和砂土沉积面方向接近时,会较早诱发剪切带的产生,使材料强度降低,造成了平面应变条件下各向异性强度规律明显不同于常规三轴条件下的试验规律,采用分叉理论结合各向异性模型则可以有效解释这个规律。随砂土沉积面角度的变化,模型可以从细观角度解释常规三轴条件下剪切带角度的单调变化的试验规律,结合分叉理论可以描述平面应变条件下其先减小然后增大的规律。通过几种理论对比分析表明,模型结合分叉理论不但能够描述多种应力状态下的平面应变和常规三轴应力条件下剪切带角度表现的不同规律,而且能够从细观角度解释其各向异性成因。     

Numerical Analysis of Drained undrained Triaxial Tests for Overconsolidated Clays

In the framework of critical state soil mechanics, a simplified hardening law is proposed to describe the change between subloading surface and the normal consolidation surface with plastic deformation based on subloading surface concept proposed by Hashiguchi. The characteristics of overconsolidated clays, such as stress strain relationship, strain hardening and softening and stress dilatancy are simulated, and the results are in accordance with the data from triaxial drained compression test. Numerical model is also used to predict the stress strain relationship in the isotropic consolidation condition and the stress paths in the undrained triaxial compression tests.     

Elastic-Perfectly Plastic Solution of Tunnel Surrounding Rocks Using Mogi-Coulomb Strength Criterion

Reasonable choice of rock strength criteria is crucial for stress and displacement prediction and support design in tunnel engineering. Based on Mogi-Coulomb strength criterion and elastic-perfectly plastic model, analytical solutions of stress and displacement for surrounding rocks around a circular tunnel were derived The intermediate principal stress coefficient was used to present the intermediate principal stress effect. The results in this study were compared with the current solutions in the literatures and the influence of intermediate principal stress and shear strength parameters of surrounding rocks was discussed. The results showed extensive applicability and the Mohr-Coulomb strength criterion and Matsuoka-Nakai criterion are two special cases; when the intermediate principal stress coefficient b was equals to 0.5, the results indicated that the intermediate principal stress effect and its range for rock strength; the influence of cohesion and internal friction angle on the plastic radius and tunnel wall displacement was significant; Care should be taken to the effects of intermediate principal stress and shear strength parameter variations of surrounding rocks on tunnel design and construction.     

河道淤泥气泡混合轻质土剪切流变特性及模型

利用剪切流变试验对以水泥为固化剂的河道淤泥气泡混合轻质土的流变特性进行了试验研究。试验结果表明，经固化处理的河道淤泥气泡混合轻质土在荷载作用下具有类似于硬粘性土的流变特征。剪切流变可以分为3个阶段：在剪应力水平较低时，剪切流变曲线呈衰减稳定型；随着剪应力水平的提高，剪切流变曲线呈非稳定的等速型；当剪应力水平增大到一定程度时，剪切流变曲线呈加速型。河道淤泥气泡混合轻质土的流变性随着混合轻质土强度的提高而降低。根据试验所呈现的剪切流变规律，可以发现河道淤泥气泡混合轻质土的剪切流变符合七元件黏弹塑性剪切流变模型，模型能够比较好地描述河道淤泥混合轻质土在各种剪应力水平下的衰减、等速以及加速流变过程。     

A Stress Path Damage Constitutive Model for Sang

A hypothesis that the skeleton deformation of sand is only the deformation of the interfaces of grains, and the deformation characteristics including nonlinearity, plastic deformation and shear dilation are controlled by the sliding of interfaces of grains within skeleton, is presented.The contact between grains is classified as perfect contact and sliding contact in this paper.In the elastic deformation phase, the contact between grains is regarded as perfect contact.With the increase of shear stress, there are gradual conversions from perfect contacts to sliding contacts which are viewed of damages in this paper.Based on Mohr Coulomb law, a calculation method for the damage ratio is given according to the relative distance of the stress point to the initial damage line and failure line.On this basis, a damage constitutive model is proposed.The model properties can be conveniently obtained through conventional triaxial compression test and constant stress ratio consolidation test.Test results indicate that the model is capable of predicting deformation behavior for various conditions, including varying consolidation conditions and stress paths.     

DEM Analysis of Soil Arching of Pile Supported Embankment

Pile supported embankment has been widely used in road, airport and dam engineering due to effective construction and economic advantages which can effectively control the settlement and differential settlement. The soil aching effect is a key factor in the load transfer mechanism of pile supported embankment. Based on the current laboratory model test, a series of numerical simulations were conducted with the particle flow code PFC2D to study the contact force, principal stress, vertical and lateral displacements in embankment. The embankment fill and subsoil were simulated by the Disk,andthe pile and model box were simulated by the WallThe multi-layer compaction method was used to establish the Discrete Element Method models. The micromechanical properties of the embankment fill and subsoil were obtained from numerical biaxial compression test and simple compression test, respectively. The simulation results indicated that the soil arching in pile supported embankment was composed by multiple hemispherical arches with different centers, and the height of arching was about 5(s-a)/6. Within the soil aching height, the deflection of principal stresswas obvious, and the vertical and lateral displacements were significant.     

红层泥岩桩岩接触面本构模型试验及数值模拟

桩-岩（土）接触面力学特性的研究是桩基承载机理研究的基础。通过红层泥岩桩岩接触面大型直剪试验，研究了红层泥岩桩岩接触面的力学特性，结果表明：接触面剪应力先随剪切位移增大而增大，在达到峰值后，剪应力随着剪切位移增大而降低，并最终趋于稳定值，应力应变曲线呈现出应变软化的特征。根据剪切试验结果，推导出桩岩接触面应变软化本构方程。利用fish语言对FLAC^3D中自带的理想弹塑性接触单元进行二次开发，并应用开发的模型对桩岩接触面直剪试验进行了数值模拟，分析剪应力与剪切位移之间的关系，证明了该本构能够较好地模拟接触面间的应变软化特性。     

Experimental Analysis of the Water Weaken Effect on Gravel Soil Roadbed Locating in the Reservoir Region with Different Compactedness

It is vital to get the accurate data of the shear strength parameters of gravel soil with different water content and compactedness before they conduct the stability analysis for gravel soil roadbed. Under several test conditions, a series of direct shear tests were performed by using some gravel soil samples obtained from a selected roadbed which is under the influence of water level fluctuation. The corresponding results show that the gravel soil cohesion increased as the water content of fine soil increases till it meets its peak value, then it will decrease as the water content keeps increase. However, the internal friction angle will decrease slowly with the increase of water content of fine soil in the initial phase, and then it will decrease rapidly as the water content keeps increase. And on the other hand, the fitted shear strength parameters calculated from the test data has been influenced by the pre-load values that used to prepare soil samples, especially for the condition that the pre-load value less than the normal stress value applied in the direct shear test. All in all, the fitted shear parameters will be controlled by the relationship among water content, pre-load value and normal stress.     

Study on mechanical behaviors of interface with cemented soil slurry between gravel and concrete by simple shear tests

The mechanical behaviors of the interface between coarse-grained soil and concrete are investigated by simple shear tests under conditions of cemented soil slurry (clay mixed with cement grout). The results show that the relation curve between shear stress and shear strain appears stress-strain softening and shear dilatation is significant. The point of peak strength and the position when the shear dilatation occurs are related to normal stress. In addition, shear dilatation occurs before the shear stress reaches peak value. In shear failure state, with the same height, the shear displacement increases as the normal stress increases. While with the same normal stress and at the same height, the shear displacement increases as the concrete content increases. A particle flow model of simple shear test between interface between coarse-grained soil and concrete is constructed by PFC (particle flow code). The disturbed height of the sample and the main influence factors are determined by analyzing the laws of particle motion at different heights inside the sample. The PFC results show disturbed height of the sample is related to maximum particle diameter of the soil, normal stress and roughness of the interface (with or without slurry) etc. In terms of the coarse-grained soil, the shear displacement is significant in the area which is close to the interface and about 3-4 times of the maximum particle diameter, and informed the obvious shear band. Further, the thickness of the interface can be regarded as the value.     

Matric Suction Effect on Shear Strength of Roadbed Unsaturated Soil

A study which focuses on the role of matric suction in the stress strength of roadbed unsaturated soil was presented. Two types of tests were described, namely, the suction controlled shear test and microstructure scanned test. For the former, four sub tests were conducted under different suction and net normal stress conditions. And two unsaturated soil samples that belong to the same type but with different water contents were scanned. In contrast with clay soil, the corresponding results show that the strength of silty sand soil does not always increase as matric suction increases or soil water content decreases; there exists a peak contributed by matric suction that acts on soil stress strength. The main reason for this kind of phenomenon is due to the typical microstructure of this type of soil and the various types of pore water retention. Additionally, the state of stress in which soil sample meets can also exerts important influence on soil strength.     

On the Type of Stress-strain Relation Curves and the Critical State for Soils

In order to discuss the influence of stress history on the constitutive relations for soils,a series of drained conventional triaxial compression tests for normally consolidated and overconsolidated clays have been carried out.It is found through comparing the stress-strain relation curves under the different stress histories that the overconsolidated ratio is the determining factor for volumetric strain.The volumetric strain is less sensitive to consolidation pressure,however.For the shear capacity,the consolidation pressure is the determining factor,but the influence of the overconsolidated ratio can not be neglected since it determines whether there will be strain hardening or strain softening as well as the grade of strain softening.Despite that,the soil specimens will finally reach a unified critical state and approximately the same residual strength.According to the principle of interaction between plastic volumetric and shear strains,the mechanism of generating two types of stress-strain relation curves for clays is explained.It is shown that the critical state is a pure process of shearing deformation in which the interaction between plastic volumetric and shear strains completely disappears.The critical state is independent of the previous stress history.     

Seismic Tests and Pushover Analysis of Spatial RC Frame-Shear Wall Structures

Pseudo-static tests of three one-storey spatial RC frame-shear wall structures with floor slabs were conducted to investigate their failure modes and hysteretic behaviors. The test results were compared with those of pushover analysis. It is shown that: 1) damage of the frame beams occurs later and is less than that of the shear wall and the frame columns; 2) damage of the floor slabs under lateral loading is significant in regions close to the shear wall, and tensile stresses of slabs' steel bars in these regions are much larger; 3) in comparison with the case that the floor slabs are neglected, the maximum lateral load that a frame-shear wall structure can bear is larger in the case that the floor slabs are taken into account, and the contribution ratio of the shear wall also increases; 4) shear forces carried by the frame columns with identical cross sections and reinforcement details but located at different positions are close to each other on the whole.     

Quantitative Parametric Analysis of Soft Clay Structure

It is a fundamental task for soil structure study to find a quantitative parameter that reflects structural damage under pressure. Based on the unidirectional compression and isotonic compression tests of soft clays from Huangshi, Zhangzhou and Qingdao, the compression properties of structure soil and the effect of different conditions on the properties were investigated. It is found that when the pressure is lower than structure yield stress, it is mainly the initial structure self alignment procedure and the structure is in few damage and the compressibility is small. When the pressure is bigger than the structure yield pressure, the structure destroys massively and the compressibility increases greatly not only from inter granular slipping but also from the collapse. With the damage properties in compression, a new coefficient was proposed to evaluate the structural behavior. And this parameter can be obtained simply through the software AutoCAD. With the proposed method, it is found that the soft clay in Qingdao is strongest in structural behavior, followed with that in Huangshi and Zhangzhou.     

Experiments on influence of slurry kinds on mechanicalbehavior of interface between gravel and concrete

The mechanical behavior and mechanism of the interface between structure and coarse grained soil are investigated through simple shear tests on the conditions of bentonite slurry, clay slurry and without slurry, respectively. The results indicate that different kinds of slurry have important influence on shear strength. Compared with the interface without slurry, the shear strength with bentonite slurry reduces by 45% approximately, significantly more than clay slurry which reduces by 10%. The value of the friction angle with bentonite slurry is about 60% of that with clay slurry. Shear displacement increases as upright stress increases when reaches its failure states at the same height, and shear displacement with bentonite slurry is smaller than that with clay slurry when with the same upright stress and height. The upright displacement with bentonite slurry is greater than that with clay slurry under the same upright stress. In addition, shear dilatation is apparent under the low normal stress when without slurry. Otherwise, it appears as shear contraction.     

Prediction Analysis on Equivalent Resilient Modulus of Clay Subgrade of Water Network Intensive Areas

According to unsaturated soil basic theories, equilibrium moisture of clay subgrade is predicted based on the updated studies of soil suction and soil water characteristic curve. Also, the bilinearity constitutive experience model of resilient modulus of clay soil is presented by triaxial repeated loading tests in laboratory. Using above mentioned results, a prediction method of equivalent resilient modulus of clay subgrade is established by comprehensively considering subgrade moisture and stress condition. Then, based on the concrete engineering, the prediction function of equivalent resilient modulus of the clay subgrade is provided by taking ground water table and subgrade height as centers. Compared with the results of other traditional testing methods on the same test road, the new prediction method may be used in practice. The results provide new perspectives and standpoints to determine the equivalent resilient modulus mechanics features of clay subgrade structure from two aspects of equilibrium moisture and stress condition.     

Study on the Terzaghi Ultimate Bearing Capacity of Foundation Based on the Unified Strength Theory

The ultimate bearing capacity of foundation based on Mohr-Coulomb strength criterion did not analyze effect of intermediate principal stress on yield and failure of soil so that the disparity between results obtained using Mohr-Coulomb strength criterion and those from experimental data are produced .In the paper , The ultimate bearing capacity of foundation based on unified strength theory is established and a unified solutions are obtained. The corresponding solutions of different materials can be got from it .The unified solution can not only be used to fit the properties of the materials with different tension-pressure strength but also those with equal tension-pressure strength, Results show that ones make full use of the properties of the materials so as to reduce supports,which is of important significance for engineering.