The effect of shape and stiffness of originally different marine soil grains on their contractive and dilative behavior

Laboratory research was conducted to compare the monotonic behavior of two different marine calcareous sands — Hormuz Island (HI) and Bushehr Port (BP) — with siliceous sand named Firoozkuh sand (F). A series of undrained isotropically consolidated triaxial tests was performed on reconstituted speci...

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Published in:KSCE journal of civil engineering 2014, 18(4), , pp.975-983
Main Authors: Shahnazari, Habib, Salehzadeh, Hossein, Rezvani, Reza, Dehnavi, Yasser
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aquatic soils
Axial strain
Calcareous soils
Carbonates
Civil Engineering
Confining
Density
Engineering
Geotechnical Engineering
Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
Hydrostatic pressure
Industrial Pollution Prevention
Laboratory experimentation
Marine
Parameters
Particle shape
Pore pressure
Pore water
Pore water pressure
Relative density
Sand
Sands
Shape
Shape effects
Shearing
Soil
Soil (material)
Soil analysis
Specific gravity
Stiffness
Triaxial tests
Water pressure
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Summary:Laboratory research was conducted to compare the monotonic behavior of two different marine calcareous sands — Hormuz Island (HI) and Bushehr Port (BP) — with siliceous sand named Firoozkuh sand (F). A series of undrained isotropically consolidated triaxial tests was performed on reconstituted specimens of these sands. In this experimental investigation, their contractive and dilative behaviors were evaluated. The effect of some important parameters, such as relative density and confining pressure on the behavior of these specimens was studied. To analyze the effect of shape and stiffness (resistance to particle breakage) on the contractive and the dilative responses of these soils, the influence of axial strain on the crushability of the calcareous soils was assessed. Thereafter, the undrained behavior of the soils was analyzed, using two parameters, which represented a normalized variation of excess pore water pressure in two phases of monotonic triaxial tests. The contractive and dilative behavior of the two different calcareous sands was compared to the siliceous sand. The results showed that particle shape played a key role in the behavior of soils in contractive phase. However, the shearing response of the used carbonate soils was more affected by particle crushing in dilation.
ISSN:1226-7988
1976-3808
DOI:10.1007/s12205-014-0286-8