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Large-Scale Triaxial Tests on Dilatancy Characteristics of Lean Cemented Sand and Gravel

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FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2021.799215

Keywords

LCSG materials; large-scale triaxial tests; dilatancy characteristics; triaxial compression tests; isodirectional loading and unloading tests

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [41871313, 51808298]
  2. Basic Public Welfare Research Project of Zhejiang, China [LGF20E090002]
  3. Natural Science Foundation of the Higher Education Institutions of Jiangsu Province, China [20KJB570001]
  4. Nantong University College Students' innovation and entrepreneurship training program [202110304115Y]

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The dilatancy equation, which describes the plastic strain increment ratio and its dependence on the stress state, is a crucial component in understanding the behavior of geotechnical materials. Through various tests, it is observed that hysteretic loops appear in stress-strain curves and the elastic strain contributes significantly to the total strain. Additionally, an increase in cement content leads to a smaller dilatancy value determined by total volume strain increment ratio compared to plastic strain increment ratio and highlights the importance of considering elastic deformation in engineering scenarios involving LCSG materials.
The dilatancy equation, which describes the plastic strain increment ratio and its dependence on the stress state, is an important component of the elastoplastic constitutive model of geotechnical materials. In order to reveal their differences of the dilatancy value determined by the total volume strain increment ratio and the real value of lean cemented sand and gravel (LCSG) materials, in this study, a series of triaxial compression tests, equiaxial loading and unloading tests, and triaxial loading and unloading tests are conducted under different cement contents and confining pressures. The results reveal that hysteretic loops appear in the stress-strain curves of equiaxial loading and unloading tests, and triaxial loading and unloading tests and that the elastic strain is an important component of the total strain. The hysteretic loop size increases with an increase in the stress level or consolidation stress, whereas the shape remains unchanged. Furthermore, with an increase in the cement content, the dilatancy value determined by the total volume strain increment ratio becomes smaller than that determined by the plastic strain increment ratio, and the influence of the elastic deformation cannot be ignored. Thus, in practical engineering scenarios, especially in the calculation of LCSG dam structures, the dilatancy equation of LCSG materials should be expressed by the plastic strain increment ratio, rather than the total volume strain increment rati.

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