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An improved model for cumulative deformations of clay subjected to cyclic loading

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  • State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430071 China

Received date: 2016-02-14

  Online published: 2018-06-05

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51179186) and the Science and Technology Service Network Initiative, Chinese Academy of Sciences (KFJ-EW-STS-122).

Abstract

The deformation characteristics of soft foundation subjected to long-term cyclic loading is significant. Various models have been developed for predicting cumulative plastic strain in clay under repeated loading. The most commonly used is empirical model, but it has some limitations. Based on the dynamic deformation curve of typical structured clay, an improved model is proposed to describe the cumulative deformations of clay subjected to cyclic loading, by adding exponential function of to the exponential hyperbola model of . This model applies to both stable strain curve with the strain limit and destructive strain curve under different stress levels. As for brittle failure of strong structured clay, the model has obvious advantages, and it also shows good universality of dynamic deformations of different structured clays under different stress levels. What is more, the improved model can be used to calculate the critical dynamic stress approximately. Since the behavior of structured clay is damaged promptly under dynamic loads when cumulative plastic strain is relatively small, the inflection point of strain-cyclic number curve is proposed to determine the failure criteria of strain.

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ZANG Meng, KONG Ling-wei, CAO Yong . An improved model for cumulative deformations of clay subjected to cyclic loading[J]. Rock and Soil Mechanics, 2017 , 38(2) : 435 -442 . DOI: 10.16285/j.rsm.2017.02.017

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