Skip to content Skip to navigation
University of Warwick
  • Study
  • |
  • Research
  • |
  • Business
  • |
  • Alumni
  • |
  • News
  • |
  • About

University of Warwick
Publications service & WRAP

Highlight your research

  • WRAP
    • Home
    • Search WRAP
    • Browse by Warwick Author
    • Browse WRAP by Year
    • Browse WRAP by Subject
    • Browse WRAP by Department
    • Browse WRAP by Funder
    • Browse Theses by Department
  • Publications Service
    • Home
    • Search Publications Service
    • Browse by Warwick Author
    • Browse Publications service by Year
    • Browse Publications service by Subject
    • Browse Publications service by Department
    • Browse Publications service by Funder
  • Help & Advice
University of Warwick

The Library

  • Login
  • Admin

An experimental study of the initial volumetric strain rate effect on the creep behaviour of reconstituted clays

Tools
- Tools
+ Tools

Bagheri, M., Rezania, Mohammad and Mousavi Nezhad, Mohaddeseh (2015) An experimental study of the initial volumetric strain rate effect on the creep behaviour of reconstituted clays. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 26 . 012034. doi:10.1088/1755-1315/26/1/012034

Research output not available from this repository, contact author.
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/26/1/012034

Request Changes to record.

Abstract

Clayey soils tend to undergo continuous compression with time, even after excess pore pressures have substantially dissipated. The effect of time on deformation and mechanical response of these soft soils has been the subject of numerous studies. Based on these studies, the observed time-dependent behaviour of clays is mainly related to the evolution of soil volume and strength characteristics with time, which are classified as creep and/or relaxation properties of the soil. Apart from many empirical relationships that have been proposed in the literature to capture the rheological behaviour of clays, a number of viscid constitutive relationships have also been developed which have more attractive theoretical attributes. A particular feature of these viscid models is that their creep parameters often have clear physical meaning (e.g. coefficient of secondary compression, Cα). Sometimes with these models, a parameter referred to as initial/reference volumetric strain rate, has also been alluded as a model parameter. However, unlike Cα, the determination of and its variations with stress level is not properly documented in the literature. In an attempt to better understand , this paper presents an experimental investigation of the reference volumetric strain rate in reconstituted clay specimens. A long-term triaxial creep test, at different shear stress levels and different strain rates, was performed on clay specimen whereby the volumetric strain rate was measured. The obtained results indicated the stress-level dependency and non-linear variation of with time.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Engineering
Journal or Publication Title: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
Publisher: IOP Publishing
ISSN: 1755-1307
Official Date: 2015
Dates:
DateEvent
2015Published
Volume: 26
Article Number: 012034
DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/26/1/012034
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access

Request changes or add full text files to a record

Repository staff actions (login required)

View Item View Item
twitter

Email us: wrap@warwick.ac.uk
Contact Details
About Us