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Strain characteristics of non-coaxiality under heart- shaped stress path caused by train loads in soft clay

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  • 1. Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Embankment Engineering of Ministry of Education, Hohai University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210098, China; 2. Jiangsu Research Center for Geotechnical Engineering Technology, Hohai University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210098, China; 3. College of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China

Received date: 2016-04-13

  Online published: 2018-06-05

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51479060) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2015B28214).

Abstract

To study the behavior of soft clay under cyclic train loads, a series of non-destructive tests on remolding hollow cylinder samples is conducted using hollow cylindrical apparatus. Most of the tests are in the heart-shaped stress path and some are in the round stress path as assistant. The strain characteristics of non-coaxiality under the two kinds of stress path are compared with each other. The effects of vibration cycle times N on non-coaxiality and the influence of frequency f on the shape of curves between non-coaxial angle ? and major principal stress directional angle ?? are studied. The analysis of mechanism is carried out and the test results under the other dynamic stress level are compared with the former tests. In addition, a simplified model of relation between ? and ?? taking no account of f is established. The research shows that during any cycle of ?? , the relations between ? and ?? under the two stress paths have their own characteristics. And unit deviator strain increments caused by deviator stress increments (d? /ds) under the two stress paths at the same dynamic stress level are different from each other. However, during some section of ?? , the d?/ ds under the two stress paths are close to each other. The impacts of N on ? and d?/ds under the heart-shaped stress path are slight. d?/ds is much larger in the angle section [30°, 40°] of ?? than the other section during any vibration cycle time. The curves between ? and ?? fluctuate violently with the f increasing.

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SHEN Yang , XU Hai-dong , WANG Bao-guang , LIU Han-long , . Strain characteristics of non-coaxiality under heart- shaped stress path caused by train loads in soft clay[J]. Rock and Soil Mechanics, 2017 , 38(1) : 1 -9 . DOI: 10.16285/j.rsm.2017.01.001

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