《Laboratory investigation on the mechanical behavior of icesaturated frozen loess》.pdfVIP

Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions Volume 6, Issue 4, August, 2014 Citation: Xu XT, Lai YM, Chai JY, et al., 2014. Laboratory investigation on the mechanical behavior of ice-saturated frozen loess. Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions, 6(4): 0314–0321. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1226.2014.00314. Laboratory investigation on the mechanical behavior of ice-saturated frozen loess XiangTian Xu 1,2*, YuanMing Lai 2, JinYi Chai 1, CaiXia Fan 1 1. Institute of Transportation, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia 010070, China 2. State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China *Correspondence to: XiangTian Xu, Institute of Transportation, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia 010070, China. Tel: +86-471-4996375; E-mail: jtxuxt@ Received: April 22, 2014 Accepted: June 13, 2014 ABSTRACT To investigate the mechanical properties of ice-saturated frozen soil, a series of triaxial tests under various confining pressures (0.5 to 9.0 MPa) on ice-saturated frozen loess with ice content of 23.7% were carried out at a temperature −6 °C, and at 1.25 mm/min of loading rate. The triaxial tests include two loading modes, one with monotonic loading (i.e., triaxial compression), and another with static cycle loading. The test results under triaxial compression show that the strength and deformation behaviors of ice-saturated frozen loess are affected by confining pressure. According to the test result