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Title: | Shear strength equations for unsaturated soil under drying and wetting | Authors: | Goh, Shin Guan Rahardjo, Harianto Leong, Eng Choon |
Keywords: | DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering::Geotechnical | Issue Date: | 2010 | Source: | Goh, S. G., Rahardjo, H., & Leong, E. C. (2010). Shear Strength Equations for Unsaturated Soil Under Drying and Wetting. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 136(4), 594-606. | Series/Report no.: | Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering | Abstract: | Shear strength of unsaturated soil is an important engineering property in various geotechnical designs. In response to varying climatic conditions, unsaturated soil behaves differently under the drying and wetting processes due to hysteresis. Many research works were conducted and numerous equations were proposed for unsaturated shear strength, however, most of them were limited to the soil under the drying process. In this study, shear strength equations were categorized according to the nature of equation, i.e., fitting and prediction type equations. The purpose of this study is to propose prediction type shear strength equations for unsaturated soil under drying and wetting. Twelve published shear strength equations were selected for evaluation. A series of unsaturated consolidated drained triaxial tests were conducted on statically compacted sand-kaolin specimens under drying and wetting to examine the validity of the proposed equations. The experimental results indicated that the specimens on the drying path had a higher shear strength and exhibited more ductility, less stiffness, and contraction during shearing while the specimens on the wetting path had a lower shear strength and exhibited more brittleness, more stiffness, and dilation during shearing. The proposed equations were shown to provide the best predictions on the drying and wetting shear strength results from this study as well as published data in the comparison study. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/94496 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7381 |
DOI: | 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0000261 | Schools: | School of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Rights: | © 2010 ASCE | Fulltext Permission: | none | Fulltext Availability: | No Fulltext |
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