Bonding Structured UH Model

  • En Yang Zhu*
  • , Xiao Qiang Li
  • , Yang Ping Yao
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Bonding in structured soil limits the relative motion between soil particles as deformation develops with loading. This makes the structured soil behave differently from the reconstituted soil. Based on the unified hardening (UH) model for overconsolidated soils, a new model is proposed to describe the stress-strain relations of structured soil. The new model is developed from the following aspects: (a) a moving normal compression line (MNCL) paralleling to the traditional normal compression line (NCL) in e-lnp plane is proposed by introducing a structure potential parameter to describe soil structure collapse in isotropic compression; (b) a moving critical state line (MCSL) paralleling to the traditional critical state line (CSL) in p−q plane is proposed by introducing a bonding parameter to describe stress ratio evolution influenced by bonding in shear. This parameter is adopted in the dilatancy equation to consider the bonding-dependent dilatancy of structured soil. Both of the above 2 structure parameters have clear physical meanings and can be determined or estimated by conventional tests. It has been analyzed that the proposed model is able to smoothly and continuously reflect the positive/negative dilatancy and strain hardening/softening of structured soil influenced by bonding and its decay.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of GeoShanghai 2018 International Conference
Subtitle of host publicationFundamentals of Soil Behaviours
EditorsAnnan Zhou, Junliang Tao, Xiaoqiang Gu, Liangbo Hu
PublisherSpringer
Pages218-225
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9789811301247
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event4th GeoShanghai International Conference - Fundamentals of Soil Behaviours, GSIC 2018 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 27 May 201830 May 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of GeoShanghai 2018 International Conference: Fundamentals of Soil Behaviours

Conference

Conference4th GeoShanghai International Conference - Fundamentals of Soil Behaviours, GSIC 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period27/05/1830/05/18

Keywords

  • Bonding
  • Constitutive model
  • Moving critical state line
  • Moving normal compression line
  • Structured soil

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