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What is undrained shear strength of clay?

What is undrained shear strength of clay?

undrained shear strength (Sul is assumed equal to the cohesion intercept (cul of the Mohr-Coulomb envelope for total stresses. For these assumptions the undrained strength of a saturated clay is not affected by changes in confining stress so long as the water content does not change.

What is remoulded shear strength?

The magnitude of the shear stress that a disturbed soil can sustain in an undrained condition.

What is the shear strength of clay?

Typical values of shear strength

Undrained shear strength su (kPa)
Loose sands 0 30° – 35°
Unweathered overconsolidated clay
critical state 0 18° ~ 25°
peak state 10 ~ 25 kPa 20° ~ 28°

What is remoulded clay?

The degree of sensitivity of a clay is defined as the ratio of (compressive strength undisturbed) to (compressive strength remoulded), remoulding being carried out in such a manner as to avoid any change in water content.

Is clay drained or undrained?

Clay behavior depends on the rate of loading (or unloading). When “fast” stress changes take place then clay behavior is typically modeled as “Undrained” while slow stress changes or long term conditions are typically modeled as “Drained”.

How do you calculate undrained shear strength?

  1. is the shear strength (σ1 – σ3)/2.
  2. hence, = Su (or sometimes cu), the undrained strength.
  3. = σ’ tan(φ’) + c’
  4. φ’ = the effective stress friction angle, or the ‘angle of internal friction’ after Coulomb friction. The coefficient of friction.
  5. Use in practice: If one is to adopt critical state theory and take c’ = 0; p

What is meant by sensitive clay?

Clays may be described as sensitive when the undisturbed strength is greater than the disturbed (remoulded) strength, where the remoulded material can behave as a fluid (Geertsema and Torrance, 2005). Sensitivity is defined as the ratio of the undisturbed shear strength and the disturbed shear strength.

How do we use clay minerals?

Clay minerals are excellent as clarifiers, absorption and adsorption materials. They are used in many industrial applications such as paper, paint, petroleum, ceramic, cement, adhesive, asphalt, and food and health-care industry due to their versatility, abundance, and low cost [1, 2].

What is difference between drained and undrained shear strength?

If water is not allowed to flow in or out of the soil, the stress path is called an undrained stress path. On the other hand, if the fluids are allowed to freely drain out of the pores, then the pore pressures will remain constant and the test path is called a drained stress path.

How do you measure soil shear strength?

Direct Shear Test: The direct shear test is also known as shear box test. The principle of the test is to cause shear failure of a soil specimen, placed in a shear box along a predetermined horizontal plane, under a given normal stress, and to determine the shear stress at failure.

What’s the difference between undrained and remoulded shear strength?

Your reported undrained shear strength is low but not uncommon. The remolded shear strength is related to the Sensitivity of your clay…sensitivity is the ratio of the undisturbed shear strength to the remolded shear strength.

How is shear strength related to clay sensitivity?

The remolded shear strength is related to the Sensitivity of your clay…sensitivity is the ratio of the undisturbed shear strength to the remolded shear strength. Many of the clays that I have experience with the lower bound of remolded Su values can be anywhere from 0.1 to 0.25 of the undisturbed Su.

How much shear strength does seabed soil have?

By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail. Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden. A seabed soil is described as clay with undrained shear strength of 5 kPa (21 psf). I am assuming this is the undisturbed shear strength.

What should the lower bound of remolded Su be?

Many of the clays that I have experience with the lower bound of remolded Su values can be anywhere from 0.1 to 0.25 of the undisturbed Su. Also,if remolding is being conducted in the laboratory then be sure that the remolded specimen’s water content is equal to the undisturbed specimen’s water content.