Rosine Larissa, TN and Toma-Sabbagh, TM 2015, 'The impact of the diameter to height ratio on the compressibility parameters of saturated fine-grained soils' , International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology, 4 (6) , pp. 8-19.
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Abstract
Compressibility parameters of fine-grained soils are mainly influenced by soil mineralogy, moisture content and soil diameter to height ratio (D/H). The British and American standards suggested that to obtain accurate engineering properties; it is necessary to use D/H ratio of 4 and 2.5 respectively to eliminate friction between the soil and the structure. In the current study, various D/H ratios were adopted ranging from 0.5 to 11. The D/H ratios effect on some compressibility parameters such as coefficient of consolidation (cv), compression index (cc) and coefficient of volume compressibility (mv) were analysed. Additionally, the impact of the D/H ratio on the acquire cv values were also presented where three methods were used namely: Casagrande, Taylor and Inflection method. The scaling effects based on cv ratio [cv (√t) / cv (log t)] from Oedometer tests using different D/H ratios are also presented. The results showed that Taylor’s method is the most appropriate way to achieve an accurate cv and an increase in pressure leads to a reduction in cc and a gradual decrease in mv. The validation of the experimental results on a finite element software package PLAXIS was completed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Schools: | Schools > School of Computing, Science and Engineering > Salford Innovation Research Centre (SIRC) |
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher: | IJRET |
| ISSN: | 2321-7308 |
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| Depositing User: | TM Toma-Sabbagh |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2017 11:12 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Aug 2017 16:48 |
| URI: | http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/43477 |
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