Soil Stiffness
Soil Stiffness
Short Course on Computational Geotechnics + Dynamics Boulder, Colorado January 5-8, 2004
Stein Sture Professor of Civil Engineering University of Colorado at Boulder
Contents
General concepts and stiffness of sand
Hookes law E-moduli from triaxial testing E-moduli from oedometer testing Examples on the estimation of E
Stiffness of clays
Undrained clay behavior Drained clay behavior Examples on the estimation of E
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Idealized types of stress-strain behaviors: (a) nonlinear elastic Model, (b) linear elastic model, and (c) elastoplastic model
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Various types of elastoplastic behaviors: (a) strain hardening, (b) perfectly plastic, (c) strain softening, and (d) combination of a to c .
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1 + 2 E= (1 2 ) Eoed Eoed 1 3
( =1 ) 3
Loose:
E 2 150 ref p 3
E 2 500 ref p 3
y ref p
y ref p
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Dense:
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Loose:
Dense:
This implies:
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E E 5 0
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=1 3
' x re f
Loose:
E =1 5 0 re f p p
E=E
ref
'x
pref
5M P a Loose: E=1
'x
r e f p
Dense: E =5 0 0 re f p p
r e f p = 1 0 0 k P a
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' x re f
0M P a Dense: E=5
'x
re f p
r e f E 1 5 M P a 5 0=
' 5 0 k P a y=
' 9 5 k P a y=
' 5 0 k P a x
E = 1 5 0 0 0 0 . 5 1 0 0 0 0 k P a 5 0
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r e f E 4 5 M P a 5 0=
r e f E 3 0 M P a 5 0=
Layer 3:
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' 1 0 k P a x
qc
Correlation: E q o e d c Literature NC-Sand: = 1 to 3 Vermeers Experience: = 3 Alternatively: Eoed = (30 10) qc p ref
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1 5 0 0 0 C 5 0 u E = u Ip%
5 0 E 3 G u = 5 0
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Do not use empirical relationships only. Get good quality experimental data from lab tests, cone penetration tests and vane tests
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