An equation for predicting shear strength envelope with respect to matric suction
✍ Scribed by M.A. Tekinsoy; C. Kayadelen; M.S. Keskin; M. Söylemez
- Book ID
- 104015211
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 308 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0266-352X
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✦ Synopsis
Determining the shear strength parameters of unsaturated soils generally involves costly, time-consuming and sophisticated testing programme. This paper proposes a new method for prediction of shear strength with respect to matric suction. The variation of shear strength with respect to matric suction is described by using the air-entry value and the internal friction angle of a soil specimen. The validity of the method is tested for a number of suction strength data available in the literature. The shear strengths with respect to matric suction obtained from the proposed method are in nicely good agreement with experimental results.