The relationship of the unsaturated soil shear strength to the soil-water characteristic curve

The measurement of soil parameters, such as the permeability and shear strength functions, used to describe unsaturate soil behaviour can be expensive, difficult, and often impractical to obtain. This paper proposes a model for predicting the shear strength (versus matric suction) function of unsatu...

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Veröffentlicht in:Canadian geotechnical journal 1996-07, Vol.33 (3), p.440-448
Hauptverfasser: FREDLUND, D. G, XING, A, FREDLUND, M. D, BARBOUR, S. L
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The measurement of soil parameters, such as the permeability and shear strength functions, used to describe unsaturate soil behaviour can be expensive, difficult, and often impractical to obtain. This paper proposes a model for predicting the shear strength (versus matric suction) function of unsaturated soils. The prediction model uses the soil-water characteristic curve and the shear strength parameters of the saturated soil (i.e., effective cohesion and effective angle of internal friction). Once a reasonable estimate of the soil-water characteristic curve is obtained, satisfactory predictions of the shear strength function can be made for the unsaturated soil. Closed-form solutions for the shear strength function of unsaturated soils are obtained for cases where a simple soil-water characteristic equation is used in the prediction model. Key words: soil suction, soil-water characteristic curve, shear strength function, unsaturated soil.
ISSN:0008-3674
1208-6010
DOI:10.1139/t96-065