Influence of the percentage of sand on the behavior of gap-graded cohesionless soils

Ndriamihaja Livah Andrianatrehina; Hanène Souli; Joël Rech; Jean-Jacques Fry; Jean-Marie Fleureau; Saïd Taibi

doi:10.1016/j.crme.2016.03.001

Influence of the percentage of sand on the behavior of gap-graded cohesionless soils

Ndriamihaja Livah Andrianatrehina ¹; Hanène Souli ¹ ; Joël Rech ¹; Jean-Jacques Fry ²; Jean-Marie Fleureau ³; Saïd Taibi ⁴

¹ Université de Lyon, École nationale d'ingénieurs de Saint-Étienne (ENI Saint-Étienne), Laboratoire de tribologie et dynamique des systèmes, CNRS UMR 5513, 58, rue Jean-Parot, 42023 Saint-Étienne cedex, France
² Électricité de France, Centre d'ingéniérie hydraulique, 73073 Le Bourget-du-Lac cedex, France
³ Laboratoire de mécanique des sols, structures et matériaux, CNRS UMR 8579, École centrale Paris, Grande voie des Vignes, 92295 Châtenay-Malabry, France
⁴ Laboratoire “Ondes et milieux complexes”, CNRS UMR 6294, Université du Havre, rue Philippe-Lebon, 76600 Le Havre, France

Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Volume 344 (2016) no. 8, pp. 539-546.

Abstract

In this work, the effect of the fine content on the undrained mechanical behavior of a granular material is studied. Consolidated undrained triaxial tests were carried out on sand and gravel mixtures. The intact sample contains 30% of sand. In order to simulate suffusion in the sample, degradation consisted in reducing the fines amount to 20, 10 and 5%.

The undrained peak strength and the dilative phase amplitude decrease when the fine content decreases, with the highest values for the intact sample and the lowest values for the sample with 5% fines. On the other hand, the contractive phase progressively increases with the fine content. The degraded samples present a higher internal friction angles than the intact one.

Received: 2015-08-11
Accepted: 2016-03-04
Published online: 2016-05-06

DOI: 10.1016/j.crme.2016.03.001

Keywords: Undrained triaxial tests, Granular materials, Fine content, Internal friction angles

Author's affiliations:

Ndriamihaja Livah Andrianatrehina ¹; Hanène Souli ¹; Joël Rech ¹; Jean-Jacques Fry ²; Jean-Marie Fleureau ³; Saïd Taibi ⁴

¹ Université de Lyon, École nationale d'ingénieurs de Saint-Étienne (ENI Saint-Étienne), Laboratoire de tribologie et dynamique des systèmes, CNRS UMR 5513, 58, rue Jean-Parot, 42023 Saint-Étienne cedex, France
² Électricité de France, Centre d'ingéniérie hydraulique, 73073 Le Bourget-du-Lac cedex, France
³ Laboratoire de mécanique des sols, structures et matériaux, CNRS UMR 8579, École centrale Paris, Grande voie des Vignes, 92295 Châtenay-Malabry, France
⁴ Laboratoire “Ondes et milieux complexes”, CNRS UMR 6294, Université du Havre, rue Philippe-Lebon, 76600 Le Havre, France

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Ndriamihaja Livah Andrianatrehina; Hanène Souli; Joël Rech; Jean-Jacques Fry; Jean-Marie Fleureau; Saïd Taibi. Influence of the percentage of sand on the behavior of gap-graded cohesionless soils. Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Volume 344 (2016) no. 8, pp. 539-546. doi : 10.1016/j.crme.2016.03.001. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mecanique/articles/10.1016/j.crme.2016.03.001/

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