Study of Artificial Structural Loess under the True Triaxial Tests

Abstract

Structure characteristic is the essential property of natural soils. The paper developed an indoor method of artificial structural loess, and studied on the true triaxial tests of artificial structural loess on the base of improving the original true triaxial apparatus. The results show that it is reasonably reliable of this artificial method. At the same time, the variation of failure strength and residual strength of structural loess under complex stress conditions was analysised. When the confining pressure was less than the structural strength of the structural loess, the stress-strain curve was soften, on the contrary the stress-strain curve was harden. In the end the paper analyzed that Mohr-Coulomb strength criterion was accurately to describe the residual strength variation of structural loess but there has much error in describing the peak broken strength, the value was obviously small.