Modeling of strain dependency of shear modulus and damping of clayey sand
โ Scribed by G.X. Wang; J. Kuwano
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 426 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0267-7261
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A series of cyclic triaxial tests on clayey sands was carried out and attempts were made to evaluate the strain dependency of shear modulus and damping. Strain dependencies of shear modulus and damping were simply modeled. It was shown that the change in the effective confining stress with loading cycles in the undrained shear test needed to be considered particularly in the large strain range. The consideration could be made by normalizing G with G H 0 AFes H m =s mr n , the initial shear modulus for the effective confining stress of that particular loading cycle, instead of using G 0 . G=G H 0 was expressed by a function of g as G=G H 0 1=1 ฯฉ b g g which was almost stress level independent for clayey sands used in this study. The damping ratio was not much affected by the confining stress. The strain dependency of the damping ratio was modeled by h a h g=1 ฯฉ b h g. Effects of load irregularity on the shear modulus were also investigated. The excess pore pressure and the residual strain were generated especially when the major peaks in the irregular loading were applied to the specimen. However, G=G H 0 for the irregular loading could be represented reasonably well by the average curve for the uniform cyclic loading, if the excess pore water pressure and the residual strain were taken into account.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
An experimental comparative study of three different grouted sands in terms of their effects on the values of two dynamic properties is presented. The dynamic properties studied are the shear modulus and the damping ratio which are determined with resonant column tests and cyclic triaxial tests. The
Small strain shear modulus G max is a key parameter together with the state of stress and shear strain amplitude for predicting the dynamic behavior of soils. Although the seismic cyclic loading on saturated soil deposits induces a decrease in effective stress and a rearrangement of the soil skeleto