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JOURNAL OF CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY
Volume 26, Issue 1, Pages 13-24Publisher
JOURNAL OF CENTRAL SOUTH UNIV
DOI: 10.1007/s11771-019-3979-9
Keywords
soil-rock mixture; freeze-thaw cycle; large-scale triaxial test; strength between soil-rock particles
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50908234]
- Key Subject of Science and Technology Research and Development Plan of China Railway General Corporation [2017G002-K]
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As a widely distributed geological and engineering material, the soil-rock mixture always undergoes frequentative and short-term freeze-thaw cycles in some regions. Its internal structure is destroyed seriously, but the damage mechanism is not clear. Based on the damage factor, the damage research of properties of soil-rock mixture after different times of freeze-thaw cycles is investigated. Firstly, the size-distributed subgrade gravelly soil samples are prepared and undergo different times of freeze-thaw cycles periodically (0, 3, 6, 10), and indoor large-scale triaxial tests are completed. Secondly, the degradation degree of elastic modulus is considered as a damage factor, and applied to macro damage analysis of soil-rock mixture. Finally, the mesoscopic simulation of the experiments is achieved by PFC3D, and the influence on strength between soil-rock particles caused by freeze-thaw cycles is analyzed. The results show that freeze-thaw cycles cause internal damage of samples by weakening the strength between mesoscopic soil-rock particles, and ultimately affect the macro properties. After freeze-thaw cycles, on the macro-scale, elastic modulus and shear strength of soil-rock mixture both decrease, and the decreasing degree is related to the times of cycles with the mathmatical quadratic form; on the meso-scale, freeze-thaw cycles mainly cause the degradation of the strength between soil-rock particles whose properties are different significantly.
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