Location
San Diego, California
Presentation Date
27 May 2010, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Abstract
The paper presents a discussion of the isotropic elastic stiffness E in the high-cycle accumulation (HCA) model proposed by Niemunis et al. (2005). The model may be used to predict permanent deformations or excess pore water pressures in non-cohesive soils due to cyclic loading. The stress-dependent bulk modulus K was determined from pairs of drained and undrained cyclic triaxial tests on a fine sand with constant stress amplitude and with similar initial conditions. K was found in good agreement with an earlier study on a medium coarse sand where a correction for membrane penetration effects had to be applied. Undrained cyclic triaxial tests with constant strain amplitude commenced at an anisotropic initial effective stress were performed for Poisson’s ratio ν. It is demonstrated that ν does not depend on amplitude, density and initial pressure. Its increase with the initial stress ratio may be disregarded for practical purposes.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
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Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Wichtmann, Torsten; Rojas, Benjamin; Niemunis, Andrzej; and Triantafyllidis, Theodor, "Stress- and Strain-Controlled Undrained Cyclic Triaxial Tests on a Fine Sand for a High-Cycle Accumulation Model" (2010). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 13.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/05icrageesd/session02/13
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Stress- and Strain-Controlled Undrained Cyclic Triaxial Tests on a Fine Sand for a High-Cycle Accumulation Model
San Diego, California
The paper presents a discussion of the isotropic elastic stiffness E in the high-cycle accumulation (HCA) model proposed by Niemunis et al. (2005). The model may be used to predict permanent deformations or excess pore water pressures in non-cohesive soils due to cyclic loading. The stress-dependent bulk modulus K was determined from pairs of drained and undrained cyclic triaxial tests on a fine sand with constant stress amplitude and with similar initial conditions. K was found in good agreement with an earlier study on a medium coarse sand where a correction for membrane penetration effects had to be applied. Undrained cyclic triaxial tests with constant strain amplitude commenced at an anisotropic initial effective stress were performed for Poisson’s ratio ν. It is demonstrated that ν does not depend on amplitude, density and initial pressure. Its increase with the initial stress ratio may be disregarded for practical purposes.
