A study on the compression curves of reconstituted clays with water contents

Authors

Z Zhuang, University of Wollongong
S Horpibulsuk, Suranaree University of TechnologyFollow
M D. Liu, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

91381

Publication Details

Zhuang, Z., Horpibulsuk, S. & Liu, M. D. (2014). A study on the compression curves of reconstituted clays with water contents. In M. A. Hicks, R. B. J. Brinkgreve & A. Rohe (Eds.), Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering (pp. 221-225). London, UK: Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

Based on Burland's void index, a simple systematic method is proposed by Liu et al. (2013), for estimating the compression behaviour of reconstituted clays. The compression behaviour of clays is idealised as linear segments in the Iv ∼ ln p space. The variation of available data in engineering practice has been taken into consideration in the proposed method. The accuracy of the estimation increases with the level of available data. In this paper, the new method is employed to simulate the compression behaviour of clays with various water contents and the influence on the compression behaviour of reconstituted clays by water contents is analyzed. 2014 Taylor & Francis Group.

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