Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Presentation Date
30 Apr 1981, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Abstract
One of the major considerations in the design of offshore structures is the effect of wave action on the foundation. This requires a study of the effects of cyclic loading on the soil properties. The anisotropic nature of clay soils, which results from sedimentation followed by K0 consolidation, plays an important role in its dynamic as well as its static behavior. An experimental program was undertaken to determine the trends in behavior of clays subjected to large strain cyclic loading. Thin long hollow cylinders of isotropic, and normally K0 consolidated and over consolidated clays, with varying degrees of anisotropy and differing stress-strain characteristics were cyclicly stressed at periods of 20 to 40 seconds using different levels of stress. Damping, modulus degradation, and increasing strain values are compared with stress, cycle number and consolidation pressure. Test results are fit to a well-known and widely used mathematical model.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1981 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Sada, Adel and Shook, Louise, "Behavior of Clays Subjected to Slow Cyclic Loading and Large Strains" (1981). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 1.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/01icrageesd/session06/1
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Behavior of Clays Subjected to Slow Cyclic Loading and Large Strains
St. Louis, Missouri
One of the major considerations in the design of offshore structures is the effect of wave action on the foundation. This requires a study of the effects of cyclic loading on the soil properties. The anisotropic nature of clay soils, which results from sedimentation followed by K0 consolidation, plays an important role in its dynamic as well as its static behavior. An experimental program was undertaken to determine the trends in behavior of clays subjected to large strain cyclic loading. Thin long hollow cylinders of isotropic, and normally K0 consolidated and over consolidated clays, with varying degrees of anisotropy and differing stress-strain characteristics were cyclicly stressed at periods of 20 to 40 seconds using different levels of stress. Damping, modulus degradation, and increasing strain values are compared with stress, cycle number and consolidation pressure. Test results are fit to a well-known and widely used mathematical model.
