Effect of shear rate on the residual shear strength of pre-sheared clays

Habibbeygi, Farzad; Nikraz, Hamid

doi:10.1080/23312041.2018.1453989

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“…Skempton (1985) reported that the strength of soils falls to the residual value in ring shear tests, owing to reorientation of platy clay minerals parallel to the direction of shearing. Based on the conclusion that the postpeak drop in strength of normally consolidated soil is only due to particle reorientation after the peak strength (Skepmton, 1964;Mesri and Shahien, 2003;Habibbeygi and Nikraz, 2018), the results demonstrated that the DJG landslide soil exhibited a greater particle reorientation compared with that of the other two landslide soils.…”

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Shear rate effect on the residual strength characteristics of saturated loess in naturally drained ring shear tests

Lian

Wang

Peng

et al. 2020

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Residual shear strength of soils is an important soil parameter for assessing the stability of landslides. To investigate the effect of the shear rate on the residual shear strength of loessic soils, a series of naturally drained ring shear tests were carried out on loess from three landslides at two shear rates (0.1 and 1 mm min−1). Experimental results showed that the shear displacement to achieve the residual stage for specimens with higher shear rate was greater than that of the lower rate; both the peak and residual friction coefficient became smaller with increase in shear rate for each sample; at two shear rates, the residual friction coefficients for all specimens under the lower normal stress were greater than those under the higher normal stress. Moreover, specimens with almost the same low fraction of clay (CF) showed a similar shear rate effect on the residual friction coefficient, with normal stress increasing, whereas specimens with high CF (24 %) showed a contrasting tendency, indicating that such an effect is closely associated with CF. The test results revealed that the difference in the residual friction angle ϕr at the two shear rates, ϕr(1)−ϕr(0.1) under each normal stress level are either positive or negative values, of which the maximum magnitude is about 0.8∘. However, the difference ϕr(1)−ϕr(0.1) determined under all normal stress levels was negative, which indicates that the residual shear parameters reduced with the increasing of the shear rate in the loess area. Such a negative shear rate effect on loess could be attributed to a greater ability of clay particles in specimens to restore broken bonds at low shear rates.

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