The compressibility of natural and reconstituted marine clays
Journal Title: Geotechnical Research - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
There is mounting evidence in favour of replacing the e against log10(s0v) diagram, conventionally used to represent soil compressibility in an oedometer, with a log(v) against log(s0v) diagram, which significantly improves the linearity of virgin loading and unloading paths. This paper presents a simple, new formulation of the ‘intrinsic’ compression and ‘sedimentation’ compression lines for a range of insensitive, sedimentary marine clays presented in Burland’s 1990 Rankine Lecture by using a log(v) against log(s0v) interpretation of the data.
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Michela Marchi
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- EP ID EP292355
- DOI 10.1680/jgere.17.00010
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