Reevaluation of the conventional triaxial test methods : Baldi, G; Hight, D W; Thomas, G E Proc Symposium on Advanced Triaxial Testing of Soil and Rock, Louisville, 19–20 June 1986P219–263. Publ Philadelphia: ASTM, 1988 (ASTM Special Technical Publication 977)

Abstract

A practical reevaluation of some aspects of conventional triaxial test methods is made, based on Bishop and Henkel's book The Measurement of Soil Properties in the Triaxial Test (2nd ed., Edward Arnold, London, 1962). Some advances in measurement techniques, methods of preparing, installing and saturating specimens, and the measurement of the initial effective stress are discussed, with particular emphasis on potential sources of disturbance and methods to reduce this. The use of unconsolidated undrained tests and various stress paths in relation to current needs is represented.