Lec11 LX Critical State soil Mechanics.ppt

Critical state soil mechanics Initial state: e0, svo’, and OCR = sp’/svo’ Soil constants: f’, Cc, and Cs (L = 1-Cs/Cc) For NC soil (OCR =1): Undrained (evol = 0): +Du and tmax = su = cu Drained (Du = 0) and contractive (decrease evol) For OC soil: Undrained (evol = 0): -Du and tmax = su = cu Drained (Du = 0) and dilative (Increase evol) There’s more ! Semi-drained, Partly undrained, Cyclic….. Equivalent Stress Concept Log sv Stress sv Shear stress t Void Ratio, e NC NC CC tanf CSL CSL CSL CS OC 1. OC State (eo, svo’, sp’) svo 2. Project OC state to NC line for equivalent stress, se’ 3. se’ = svo’ OCR[1-Cs/Cc] svo e0 Effective stress sv Void Ratio, e sp sp se se su svf ep De = Cs log(sp’/svo’) De = Cc log(se’/sp’) De at se’ suOC = suNC Undrained Shear Strength from CSSM Undrained Shear Strength from CSSM Porewater Pressure Response from CSSM Critical state soil mechanics Previously: su/svo’ = constant for NC soil On the virgin compression line: svo’ = se’ Thus: su/se’ = constant for all soil (NC OC) For simple shear: su/se’ = ?sin f’ Equivalent stress: Normalized Undrained Shear Strength: su/svo’ = ? sinf’ OCRL where L = (1-Cs/Cc) se’ = svo’ OCR[1-Cs/Cc] Critical state lines Critical state of soil q p’ p’ v log p’ v Roscoe, Schofield and Wroth (1958) ‘revolutionary’ idea end points of drained and undrained triaxial tests coincide when presented in terms of effective stresses and density q = Mp’ v = ? - ? ?n p’ critical state line data of Weald clay Casagrande; Hvorslev Shearing behavior of sand State parameter (Been Jefferies 1985) and soil shearing strength Soil peak strength decrease with soil state parameter Dilatancy Shearing behavior of sand Dilatancy and soil peak strength Dilation is typical for dense sand and inherently contributes to the shear strength (Jong 1976; Bolton 1986; Chakraborty and Salgado 2010) Empirical relation Bolton (1986): a is 0.8 for plain strain condition, and a is 0.5 for triaxial test condition Chakrabor