Abstract
Geotechnical materials may contain organic matters and gas bubbles during the process of their formation. The existence of compressible gas bubbles and organic matters may affect the excess pore water pressure distribution during compression and the deformation behaviour of the materials. Immediate settlement and creep have been observed in the early stage of consolidation curves of brown coal and peat samples, which can not be explained with Terzaghi's consolidation theory where soils are considered as fully saturated and soil particles are incompressible. A numerical model has been developed to model the consolidation behaviour of brown coal and peat considering the inclusion of gas bubbles and the time dependent compressible organic matters. In the model, the materials are assumed to contain incompressible minerals, compressible organic matters, gas bubbles and water. Consolidation of the materials is considered as a coupling process of water extrusion and volume variation of gas bubbles and organic matters. The model has been validated using the experimental results from one dimensional consolidation curves of brown coal and historical test results of peat. The gas content and the compressibility of organic matters can be obtained using the proposed model. The model can be used to analyze compression behaviour of geotechnical materials containing compressible particles and gas bubbles.
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