Crack formation in clayey geomaterials subjected to tensile (total) stress
Murray, I. and Tarantino, A. and Francescon, F.; Khalili, Nasser and Russell, Adrian and Khoshghalb, Arman, eds. (2014) Crack formation in clayey geomaterials subjected to tensile (total) stress. In: Unsaturated Soils. CRC Press, AUS, pp. 823-828. ISBN 9781138001503
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Abstract
The paper presents an experimental investigation into the mechanisms of tensile failure in clayey geomaterials under saturated and unsaturated conditions. An experimental apparatus was developed to test specimens in uniaxial tension with the facility to monitor suction (pore-water tension) using high-capacity tensiometers. This allowed interpretation of failure data in terms of effective stress and average skeleton stress for saturated and unsaturated specimens respectively. Experimental data from normally consolidated samples showed that failure under uniaxial tension occurs in shear and tensile cracks form as a combination of Mode I and Mode II fracture. In the saturated range when samples were prepared with de-aired water, tensile failure occurred at deviatoric stresses corresponding to the critical state line derived from triaxial and uniaxial compression tests. When using non-de-aired water and at suction levels approaching the air-entry value, failure occurred at deviatoric stresses lower than the ones corresponding to the critical state line derived from compression tests. It has been suggested that water cavitation may be one of the mechanisms that control premature rupture of saturated clay when subjected to a (total) tensile stress state. Finally, tensile failure data from unsaturated samples showed that there is continuity between saturated and unsaturated states.
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Murray, I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3470-6303, Tarantino, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6690-748X and Francescon, F.; Khalili, Nasser, Russell, Adrian and Khoshghalb, Arman-
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 58795 Dates: DateEvent5 June 2014PublishedSubjects: Technology > Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Department: Faculty of Engineering > Civil and Environmental Engineering Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 24 Nov 2016 12:22 Last modified: 19 Oct 2024 00:09 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/58795