Journal
CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL JOURNAL
Volume 39, Issue 6, Pages 1427-1432Publisher
NATL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA
DOI: 10.1139/T02-101
Keywords
matric suction; mini suction probe; triaxial; unsaturated soils; mid-height pore-water pressure measurement
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A modified triaxial apparatus with mini suction probes was fabricated to study the matric suction along the specimen height during unsaturated triaxial testing. Three mini suction probes were placed at 3/4, 1/2, and 1/4 height of the specimen, each at 120degrees apart in the lateral direction. This paper presents the development of the mini probe for matric suction measurements. Evaluation of the performance shows that the fabricated mini probe provides a rapid response and accurate reading under negative and positive pore-water pressure changes. Matric suctions as high as 400 kPa were successfully measured on soil specimens over a time span of 15 h. On the other hand, the mini suction probes were also found to be able to measure a matric suction of 200 kPa for a longer period of 155 h.
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