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Influence of soil particle size on monotonic and cyclic direct shear behaviors of geogrid-soil interface

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  • 1. Department of Civil Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China; 2. College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, China

Received date: 2015-03-17

  Online published: 2018-06-05

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51478255, 51678352, 51622810) and the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (14ZR1416100).

Abstract

To investigate the influence of soil particle size on geogrid-coarse soil interface cyclic and post-cyclic shear strength behavior, a series of large scale direct shear tests, cyclic shear tests and post-cyclic direct shear tests is conducted through a large-scale direct shear device. The influence of cyclic shear history on interface shear behavior is studied according to the comparison and analysis of the results obtained from direct shear tests and post-cyclic direct shear tests. The results show that, in direct shear tests, the interface apparent cohesion and friction angle both increase with soil particle size increase. In cyclic shear tests, the shear strength tends to harden under different particle sizes; for the same amplitude of cyclic shear displacement, the smaller the particle size is, the faster the hardening rate of interface is. After subjected to cyclic shear, the ratio between residual shear stress and peak shear stress of interface decreases; and the peak apparent shear stress increases insignificantly.

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LIU Fei-yu, WANG Pan, WANG Jun, CAI Yuan-qiang, . Influence of soil particle size on monotonic and cyclic direct shear behaviors of geogrid-soil interface[J]. Rock and Soil Mechanics, 2017 , 38(1) : 150 -156 . DOI: 10.16285/j.rsm.2017.01.019

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