LIU Shuai,GAO Zhihua,HU Bo,et al.Experimental study on dynamic characteristics of soft soil in Pearl River Delta under cyclic confining pressure[J].Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Sunyatseni,2023,62(04):131-138.
LIU Shuai,GAO Zhihua,HU Bo,et al.Experimental study on dynamic characteristics of soft soil in Pearl River Delta under cyclic confining pressure[J].Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Sunyatseni,2023,62(04):131-138. DOI: 10.13471/j.cnki.acta.snus.2022D082.
Experimental study on dynamic characteristics of soft soil in Pearl River Delta under cyclic confining pressure
Large settlements of soft soil foundation occur under cyclic loading. The influence of cyclic deviatoric stress on the dynamic characteristics of soft soil has been previously analyzed using dynamic triaxial tests, while the effect of cyclic confining pressure has rarely been considered. In this study, a series of undrained dynamic triaxial tests with variable confining pressure were conducted for saturated soft soil from the Pearl River Delta using GDS dynamic triaxial test system. The coupling effects of cyclic deviatoric stress and confining pressure on the cumulative axial strain, pore pressure, and damping ratio were analyzed. The results show that the cumulative axial strain and normalized damping ratio decrease with the increase of the cyclic confining pressure, while the maximum and minimum pore pressures increase with the increase of the cyclic confining pressure. When the number of cycles
N
=1 000 and the stress path
η
increased from 0.33 to 1.00 and 2.00, the accumulated axial strain
ε
p
decreased from 4.04% to 3.52% and 2.45%, the normalized damping ratio
λ
N
/
λ
1
from 0.253 to 0.269 and 0.217, the maximum pore pressure
u
max
increased from 60.55 kPa to 79.25 kPa and 104.51 kPa, and the minimum pore pressure
u
min
increased from 58.69 kPa to 71.12 kPa and 80.90 kPa. Furthermore, a model for predicting the accumulated axial strain of saturated soft soil is established and verified. These results are helpful to deepen the understanding of the mechanical properties of soft clay under cyclic loading.
关键词
软土动三轴试验累积轴向应变孔压阻尼比珠江三角洲
Keywords
soft soildynamic triaxial testaccumulated axial strainexcess pore water pressuredamping ratiothe Pearl River Delta
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