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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Agostino BrunoORCiD, Professor Mohamed Rouainia
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© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences 2020.This paper presents a bounding surface model predicting the combined effects of cementation and partial saturation on the mechanical behaviour of soils subjected to isotropic loading. The loss of cementation caused by loading, wetting or drying of a normally consolidated soil is described by a "cementation bonding function". This states that, under virgin conditions, the ratio between cemented and uncemented void ratios monotonically decreases with increasing levels of scaled stress. The scaled stress is the variable governing the intrinsic behaviour of the soil under both saturated and unsaturated conditions. Combination of the cementation bounding function with a previously proposed model for unsaturated soil behaviour leads to the formulation of a "cemented unified normal compression line"(CUNCL). This describes the virgin behaviour of both cemented and uncemented soils under saturated and unsaturated conditions. Progressive yielding is modelled by assuming that the slope of the generic loading curve tends towards the slope of the CUNCL as the soil state moves from overconsolidated to virgin conditions. The model has been calibrated and validated against existing experimental data demonstrating a good ability to predict the void ratio of cemented soils during isotropic loading, unloading and wetting under both saturated and unsaturated conditions.
Author(s): Bruno AW, Gallipoli D, Rouainia M, Lloret-Cabot M
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: 4th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils (E-UNSAT 2020)
Year of Conference: 2020
Pages: 02001
Online publication date: 16/10/2020
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
Date deposited: 17/03/2021
ISSN: 2267-1242
Publisher: EDP Sciences
URL: https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202019502001
DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/202019502001
Series Title: E3S Web of Conferences
