饱和软粘土的循环蠕变特性

本文介绍对上海淤泥质饱和粘土在长期循环荷载作用下的变形特性的试验研究结果。考虑到土的各向异性性质,在三轴试验中,在K0固结条件下把土试样恢复到天然的K0应力状态,然后进行排水及不排水单向循环加载蠕变试验。从试验结果可以观察到一些重要的现象:(1)当循环轴向应力小于初始固结压力的50%时,饱和粘土的循环蠕变可分成三个阶段;(2)循环应变可分成不可逆的累积应变与可逆应变两部分,可逆应变的大小与循环应力幅值近似成线性关系;(3)孔压增长较为滞后,不排水试样孔压增长稳定时其值约为应力幅值50%,而排水试样的残余孔压约为应力幅值的20%。

Cyclic creep behavior of saturated soft clay

A study on the deformation behavior of a saturated soft clay under cyclic loading was presented.Considering the intrinsic anisotropy of the soil,a soil specimen was initially restored to the in-situ stress state under K0 consolidation in a triaxial cell,and then the specimen was sheared in the same triaxial cell under axial cyclic loading and tested in a drained or undrained creep condition.The test results showed that:(a) The cyclic creep process of the saturated clays could be divided into three stages if the cyclic axial stress was less than 50% of the initial confining pressure.(b) The cyclic strain could be divided into two parts,that is,a irreversible accumulated strain and a reversible strain.The magnitude of the there was approximately a linear relation between the reversible strain and the amplitude of the cyclic stress.(c) The increase of excess pore water pressure initially lagged behind that of stress.The stable excess pore pressure was about 50% of the stress amplitude for a undrained specimen,however the residual excess pore water pressure was approximately 20% of stress amplitude for a drained specimen.