scholarly journals MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF "SHIRASU" ON TRIAXIAL COMPRESSION TESTS BY ACTING PARTIALLY LONGITUDINAL LOADS

Author(s):  
HISASHI TOKUTOMI
2016 ◽  
Vol 858 ◽  
pp. 91-97
Author(s):  
Jun Hua Xiao ◽  
Wen Qi Zheng

To investigate the macroscopic mechanical properties of undisturbed structural Xiashu loess in the lower reaches of China’s Yangtze River under triaxial compression, and obtain the intrinsic explanations for the macroscopic mechanical properties from the microscopic point of view, in laboratory, triaxial compression tests were carried out, microstructure images of sheared samples were collected by scanning electron microscope (SEM), and quantitative parameters of microstructure (mainly about particle or pore size, distribution, and alignment) were extracted by digital image processing technique. Based on the test results, the deviator stress-strain relationships of both undisturbed and remoulded Xiashu loess, the structural strength, and the microstructural evolution mechanism about the formation of shear failure zone of Xiashu loess under triaxial compression were analyzed.


1994 ◽  
Vol 353 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Umedera ◽  
A. Fujiwara ◽  
N. Yasufuku ◽  
M. Hyodo ◽  
H. Murata

AbstractA series of triaxial compression tests is being conducted under the drained condition on bentonite and sand mixtures, known as buffer, in saturated and optimum water content states to clarify the mechanical properties of the buffer.It was found that the mechanical properties of bentonite and sand mixtures are strongly influenced by water and bentonite contents: shear strength in a saturated state is less than that in an optimum water content state; shear strength decreases rapidly with increasing bentonite content. Strength properties are much dependent on confining pressure.


2014 ◽  
Vol 852 ◽  
pp. 441-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xing Xia Wang ◽  
Wen Juan Ma ◽  
Jian Wen Huang ◽  
Zai Yi Liao

The mechanical properties of rock mass under unloading conditions are essentially different from that under loading conditions. Triaxial compression tests and unloading confining pressure tests are conducted, and test results show that unloading failure is more brittle, and rock samples suffer more damage under unloading failure. The larger the initial confining pressure is, the easier of unloading failure is occurred. The increasing or decreasing values of rock deformation modulus under unloading conditions are within 10% of rock triaxial compressive strength. Unloading failure leads to deterioration of rock deformation modulus, which decreases gradually with confining pressure decreasing, and the decrease rates get bigger and bigger with unloading ratio of confining pressure increasing. Deformation modulus is only 24-34% of that under loading condition when rock strength goes down to residual strength.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuai Guo ◽  
Peng Huang ◽  
A.J.S. (Sam) Spearing ◽  
Zhaojun Wang ◽  
Xiangjian Dong

The accumulated damage of the surrounding rocks induced by the existing coal mining activities (such as excavation and extraction) is the initial mechanical background of the rock and coal for the further mining operations. An energy-based Cumulative Initial Damage (CID) variable was proposed to account for such existing damage. With the MTS815 electro-hydraulic servo-controlled system, coal samples with different CID value were prepared by cyclic pre-loading and unloading process, and a novel experimental framework was presented to investigate the effect of CID on the further mechanical properties of the CID coal samples. The deformation characteristics, peak strength, peak strain, dilatancy characteristics, brittle-ductile transformation behavior, and microscopic structure of the CID coal samples were investigated in detail. The triaxial compression tests showed that with the increased of CID value, the compaction part of the coal samples was shorter and the strain softening stage became longer. When the CID value was increased from 0 to 0.521, the deviation stress and peak strain of the coal decreased by 31.4 and 37.7%, respectively and the main characteristic of the fracture morphology changed from cleavage steps to dimpling.


2012 ◽  
Vol 730-732 ◽  
pp. 319-324
Author(s):  
Gislene A. Santiago ◽  
Camila Franco ◽  
Nilo C. Consoli ◽  
Vagner R. Botaro

This paper discusses the behaviour of the granular soil reinforced with the random inclusion of the short and superficially treated curaua fibers with asphalt. These fibers are extracted from the leaves of Ananas erectifolius plants, which are a natural occurring bromeliacea from Amazon region, Brazil. The curaua treated fibers were mixed in the granular soil in order to evaluation their influence on the mechanical properties improvements of the soil. In order to characterize the performance of these fibers, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) were employed. Also a series laboratory triaxial compression tests were performed to determine the static stress–strain response of the composites. Through the obtained results, it was observed that the addition of vegetal fibers randomly distributed presented significant improvements on the mechanical properties of this soil. The results show the potential of the curaua fibers used as soil reinforcement.


2015 ◽  
Vol 771 ◽  
pp. 104-107
Author(s):  
Riska Ekawita ◽  
Hasbullah Nawir ◽  
Suprijadi ◽  
Khairurrijal

An unconsolidated undrained (UU) test is one type of triaxial compression tests based on the nature of loading and drainage conditions. In order to imitate the UU triaxial compression tests, a UU triaxial emulator with a graphical user interface (GUI) was developed. It has 5 deformation sensors (4 radial deformations and one vertical deformation) and one axial pressure sensor. In addition, other inputs of the emulator are the cell pressure, the height of sample, and the diameter of sample, which are provided by the user. The emulator also facilitates the analysis and storage of measurement data. Deformation data fed to the emulator were obtained from real measurements [H. Nawir, Viscous effects on yielding characteristics of sand in triaxial compression, Dissertation, Civil Eng. Dept., The University of Tokyo, 2002]. Using the measurement data, the stress vs radial strain, stress vs vertical strain, and Mohr-Coulomb circle curves were obtained and displayed by the emulator.


2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Lees ◽  
J. Clausen

Conventional methods of characterizing the mechanical properties of soil and geogrid separately are not suited to multi-axial stabilizing geogrid that depends critically on the interaction between soil particles and geogrid. This has been overcome by testing the soil and geogrid product together as one composite material in large specimen triaxial compression tests and fitting a nonlinear failure envelope to the peak failure states. As such, the performance of stabilizing, multi-axial geogrid can be characterized in a measurable way. The failure envelope was adopted in a linear elastic – perfectly plastic constitutive model and implemented into finite element analysis, incorporating a linear variation of enhanced strength with distance from the geogrid plane. This was shown to produce reasonably accurate simulations of triaxial compression tests of both stabilized and nonstabilized specimens at all the confining stresses tested with one set of input parameters for the failure envelope and its variation with distance from the geogrid plane.


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