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    Assignment 1: Modelling The Stress-Strain Behavior of Soils: Part A (5 Marks)

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    CVEN4202 ADVANCED TOPICS IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING

    ASSIGNMENT 1: MODELLING THE STRESS-STRAIN


    BEHAVIOR OF SOILS
    Hand your work in to Dr Russell or his assignment collection box on level 5 of the civil
    engineering building no later than 5pm Friday 11th September, 2015 (Week 7).
    Worth 17.5% of course mark

    Part A (5 marks)
    The most commonly used model in industry for describing the stress-strain behaviour of soils
    is the elastic-perfectly plastic Mohr-Coulomb model. Its main ingredients include:
    Elasticity
    The usual assumptions are made:

    ep =

    p
    K

    and

    qe =

    q
    3G

    where constants are adopted for K and G.

    Yield surface
    In the q ~ p plane the yield surface is a straight line passing through the origin and has a
    slope M:
    f = q Mp = 0
    M is a soil constant that is related to a characteristic friction angle (usually taken as the peak
    friction angle) through:
    M =

    6 sin
    3 sin

    Plastic potential
    The normality condition is abandoned and the plastic potential is defined as:
    g = q M p + k = 0
    where k is an arbitrary variable to allow the plastic potential function to be defined at the
    current stress state. M is another soil constant. It follows that the increments of plastic
    strains may be expressed as:

    g
    g
    = M and
    qp =
    =
    p
    q
    such that the ratio between the strain increments, which represents the direction of the vector
    of strain increments, is:

    pp =

    pp
    = M
    qp
    In fact the constant M is related to the plane strain dilation angle through:
    M =

    6 sin
    3 sin

    Dilative soils, such as dense sands, have > 0 such that M > 0 and plastic volumetric
    expansion occurs as plastic shear strain increases. Contractive soils, such as loose sands, have
    < 0 such that M < 0 and plastic volumetric contraction occurs as plastic shear strain
    increases.
    Notice that the model parameters M and M do not change as the soil state changes, thus the
    model is described as perfectly plastic. Model features are illustrated in Figures 3.22 and
    3.24.

    For 5 marks derive the following stressstrain relationship for this model and a soil element
    at yield:

    1
    p
    3K G
    q = K MM + 3G

    M

    M p

    MM q

    Part B (20 marks in total)


    Given the soil properties = 0.3, = 0.05, M = 1.2, = 0.25 and N = 3.5; generate Cam-clay
    simulations of a soil in a conventional triaxial test for the following initial states and drainage
    conditions:
    1)
    2)
    3)
    4)

    p = 200kPa, q = 0kPa, u = 0kPa, specific volume = 1.8, drained conditions; (5 marks)


    p = 200kPa, q = 0kPa, u = 0kPa, specific volume = 1.5, drained conditions; (5 marks)
    p = 200kPa, q = 0kPa, u = 0kPa, specific volume = 1.5, undrained conditions; (5 marks)
    Explain why the elastic parts of the stress-strain curves are non-linear. Also explain why
    the effective stress ratio at the end of the simulations approaches a value of M,
    irrespective of the drainage condition and whether hardening or softening occurs.
    (5 marks)

    For a maximum of 8 bonus marks (added to final course mark rather than assignment
    mark)
    Using the model parameters and critical state line defined in Russell and Khalili (2004),
    simulate the stress-strain behavior of a soil in a conventional triaxial test using the bounding
    surface plasticity model for the following initial states and drainage conditions:
    1) p = 200kPa, q = 0kPa, u = 0kPa, specific volume = 1.75, drained conditions;
    2) p = 200kPa, q = 0kPa, u = 0kPa, specific volume = 1.75, undrained conditions;
    You may ignore membrane penetration in the simulations.

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