The physical properties of the tested material * The numbers in the first column refer to the fines contents in percentage. Table 1 Yamamuro and Covert [17] showed that the stress condition required to loading corresponded to the monotonic undrained initiate liquefaction under cyclic the instability line established from triaxial compression tests. A better understanding of the instability of sand—silt mixtures is very important because of the wide distribution and common engineering problems o f the materials. Chu and Leong [2] studied the instability condition for clean sand and silty sand with fines contents less t han 10%. An extended study on the determination of the instability lines of sand—silt mixtures with different amount o f fines contents were carried out in this study. The characterization of the instability lines for the mixtures is presented in this paper. Both drained and undrained compression tests were carried out using the closed-loop automatic triaxial test equipment. The samples were fully saturated using a back pressure of 800 kPa with B-values higher than 0.96. Totally, a series of 27 isotropically consolidated drained tests (CID) for loose samples and another series of 51 undrained tests (CIU) for both loose and dense samples were carried out (Tables 2-4). In the tables, tests are numbered with CID and CIU. fc is the fines content for the sample, 04 is the effective confining stress for the sample during consolidation and shearing, D,; and e; are the initial relative density and initial the instability of the soils. It is shown as the follows: Fig. 3. Extreme void ratios for the tested materials. Parameters for the CID tests under different confining stresses with same initial relative density The equivalent intergranular void ratio (é,)eq 1s defined s [15]: Fig. 2. Grain size distribution for the tested materials. CIU tests on sand-silt mixtures under same confining pressure of 150 kPa with different initial relative densities Parameters for the CIU tests under different confining stresses with same initial relative density Fig. 4. Instability lines and steady state lines for all the sand—silt mixtures. Fig. 5. Determination of the SSL from static drained tests. Data points can be located around a unique curve if the corrected intergrain void ratio is used. The value of the intergranular void ratio for clean sand is the global void ratio. The relationship between the yield strength ratio and the intergranular void ratio for Hokksund sand can be used by the sand—silt mixtures with fines contents less than the TFC (Fig. 9b). The relationship between the yield strength The relationship between the yield strength ratio and the global void ratio, and the relationship between the yield Fig. 8. Stress ratio versus: (a) global void ratio and (b) interfine void ratio (fe: 50-94%). Fig. 7. Stress ratio versus: (a) global void ratio and (b) corrected intergranular void ratio (fc: 0-30%). For the evaluation of liquefaction, several relationships between laboratory test results and field measurement have If the intergrain void ratio is known for a certain sand—silt mixture in the field, the yield shear strength for this soil can Fig. 9. Relationship between the yield strength ratio and the void ratio (fc: 0-30%): (a) global void ratio and (b) corrected intergranular void ratio. Fig. 10. Relationship between the yield strength ratio and the void ratio (fe: 50-94%): (a) global void ratio and (b) interfine void ratio.
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