... engineering properties noted throughout the literature. For load-bearing applications, their long-term deformation behavior under typical, in-service static design loads is not as well understood, nor is its impact on shear strength. To address this gap in knowledge, the Federal Highway Administration...

... of recycled geosynthetic components added to silica sand, whose complex and engineered soil matrix is currently used in the equestrian riding industry. Approximately 120 direct shear tests were used to evaluate the shear strength and compressibility behavior of several riding surface mixtures blended...

..., the impact of a homogeneous distribution of gas bubbles in soil on its mechanical properties has not yet been thoroughly understood. In order to further investigate and improve our understanding of the shear strength of gassy soils, an experimental setup and a sample preparation procedure to implement...

...Masoud S. G. Manafi; An Deng; Abbas Taheri; Mark B. Jaksa; H. B. Nagaraj 15 11 2022 24 03 2023 31 05 2023 plasticity Atterberg limits shear strength flow stress soil consistency workability Manafi method Manafi apparatus References ASTM International. 2014...

... in undrained shear strength of reconstituted, normally consolidated (NC) clay specimens after drained thermal consolidation using a thermal triaxial device. The motivation behind performing these tests is that relatively few studies in the literature have focused on understanding the changes in shear strength...

...Michael Jeffery; Mason Crumpton; Stephen G. Fityus; Jinsong Huang; Anna Giacomini; Olivier Buzzi The shear strength of rock discontinuities is an important design parameter that is noted to be scale dependent. Historically, discontinuity shear strength and scale dependency studies have used small...

... provided. Through the proposed modification, a better shear strength test method for rock and concrete was achieved. Geotechnical Testing Journal doi:10.1520/GTJ20200185 / Vol. 44 / No. 6 / 2021 / available online at www.astm.org Vítor Oliveira Santos Vizini1 and Marcos Massao Futai2 Modified Direct Shear...

...Timothy D. Stark This article presents an evaluation of the undrained shear strengths for Bootlegger Cove Clay (BCC) in the Anchorage, Alaska area for seismic stability and permanent deformation analyses for public and private infrastructure. Given the high seismicity of the area, the focus herein...

... shear strength References Ahmed , S. , Lovell   C. W.   Jr. , and Diamond   S. . 1974 . “ Pore Sizes and Strength of Compacted Clay .” Journal of the Geotechnical Engineering Division   100 , no.  4 : 407 – 425 . ASTM International. 2011 . Standard Test Method...

.... . 2013 . “ A Comparison between the Shear Strength Measured with Direct Shear and Triaxial Devices on Undisturbed and Remolded Soils .” In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris, 2013: Challenges and Innovations in Geotechnics , 317 – 320...

...Timothy D. Stark; R. Fernandez-Santoyo 25 06 2020 01 07 2020 02 09 2020 shear strength fully softened strength direct shear ring shear stiff clay compacted clay Atterberg limits correlations References Abdel-Ghaffar , M. E. M. “ The Meaning...

... of unsaturated soil mechanics experimentally testing highly compacted soils, which often possess complex shear strength and dilatancy characteristics. The main objective of this study is to investigate the effect of suction and confining pressure on shear strength and dilatancy of a highly compacted silty sand...

... and unsaturated constant water content (CW) tests containing isotropic consolidation and shear tests with different intermediate principal stress parameters b were conducted to investigate deformation and shear strength characteristics of intact loess using unsaturated true triaxial apparatus. The initial suction...

...Sandra Linero Molina; Leonie Bradfield; Stephen G. Fityus; John V. Simmons; Arcesio Lizcano Large-scale direct-shear equipment is described and experimental results are presented showing the influence of test boundary conditions on direct shear strength. The equipment was constructed...

... phyllosilicate (MLPS). The effect of aging on the shear strength of transparent soft clay formed from MLPS and water is presented in this article. A miniature ball penetrometer (MBP) was developed for this study. MBP tests were used to measure the shear strength of samples at three different concentrations...

... show a thermally induced contractive plastic volume change agreeing with the thermomechanical behavior of saturated normally consolidated clays in the literature. Furthermore, the drained heating-cooling cycle caused a dramatic increase in the undrained shear strength compared to the value measured...

... elastoplastic behavior triaxial test compacted soil volume change shear strength References Alonso , E. E. , Gens   A. , and Josa   A. . 1990 . “ A Constitutive Model for Partially Saturated Soils .” Géotechnique   40 , no.  3 (September): 405 – 430 . https://doi.org/10.1680/geot...

...Hisham T. Eid The peak and residual interface shear strengths for a variety of normally consolidated soils were measured using a torsional ring shear apparatus modified to suit soil and interface testing under the undrained condition, which is usually prevalent at soil–marine pipeline interfaces...

... to the critical state conditions for soft soils with an undrained shear strength ranging up to 40 kPa. This study shows that the corrections for the membrane and filter paper effect, given by ASTM and BS, can lead to a significant overestimation of the correction required when applied to typical values...

... suction, bearing capacity, stone column, bulging, shear strength Introduction Over the past four decades, stone columns (also known as granular columns or granular piles) have been among the most extensively used methods of soil improvement. They have been used in a wide variety of soils, ranging from...