Abstract
As one of the basic mechanical properties of soil, the creep property of a given type soil is related to stress path, and stress level. In this paper, triaxial shear creep tests under different deviatoric stress levels were performed on both intact sample and the reconstituted sample of clay taken from Hangzhou, China. Based on the Boltzmann linear superposition principle, the creep curves of the clay sample under different levels of deviatoric stress were obtained, and the creep characteristics of the intact sample and the reconstituted sample were compared in both total stress creep analysis and effective stress creep analysis. Furthermore, the creep curves were fitted using a hyperbolic creep model. The results show that (1) under the same stress level, the creep of intact sample evolves more than that of reconstituted sample; (2) the hyperbolic creep model is suited to describe the creep characteristics of intact and reconstituted clay, and the model parameters A s and B s can be linearly correlated to the stress level D r ; (3) for the application of the hyperbolic model, the total stress analysis works better, and the model parameters A s and B s can be determined by a linear relationship with Dr.
Highlights
Creep is a macroscopic reflection of time effect of soil’s deformation due to stress change
(1) While analysing the total stress creep of the intact sample, the shear creep test is divided into 7 levels
The creep characteristics of the intact and reconstituted samples under different stress levels were studied through indoor triaxial shear creep tests
Summary
Creep is a macroscopic reflection of time effect of soil’s deformation due to stress change. The loading path and stress level affect the soil creep characteristics [6, 7]. In onedimensional (1-D) compression and consolidation test, a soil sample creeps in one dimension and the creep will be affected by soil’s stiffness and the stress level [8, 9]. In triaxial test, a soil sample may deform in three directions, and the induced volume change and excess pore pressure dissipation are associated to the drainage condition [5, 10], so the creep characteristics are loading path dependent
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