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- Title
- Yield stress, volume change, and shear strength behaviour of unsaturated soils: validation of the SFG model
- Author/Creator
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Zhou, Annan;
Sheng, Daichao
- Description
- The model recently presented by Sheng, Fredlund, and Gens, known as the SFG model, provides a consistent explanation of yield stress, shear strength, and volume change behaviour of unsaturated soils as functions of suction. All these functions are based on one single equation that defines the volume change with suction and stress changes. This paper provides a systematic validation of the equation and the derived shear strength criterion against experimental data. The experimental data used include those for samples prepared from slurry soils and compacted soils. It is shown that (i) the method currently used to determine yield stresses of unsaturated soils is incorrect, (ii) volume change behaviour of unsaturated soils can be well predicted by the SFG model, and (iii) shear strength behaviour of unsaturated soils can be represented very well by the criterion in the SFG model.
- Relation
- Canadian Geotechnical Journal Vol. 46, Issue 9, p. 1034-1045
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/T09-049
- Date
- 2009
- Publisher
- NRC Research Press
- Keyword(s)
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elastoplastic modelling;
Fredlund;
Gens (SFG) model;
shear strength;
Sheng;
unsaturated soils;
volume change;
yield stress
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/41705
- Identifier
- ISSN:0008-3674
- Language
- eng
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