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Strength Characteristics of Guilin Red Clay under Different Stress Conditions

WANG Jing, CHEN Qiuguang, SUN Xiaoli   

  1. (College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin Guangxi 541004)
  • Received:2011-10-18 Online:2012-06-20 Published:2012-06-25

Abstract: Throughout a series of consolidated undrained triaxial shear tests on the undisturbed samples, the stressstrain relationships of Guilin Red Clay under different stress conditions are studied.  The results show that the shear failure of the Guilin Red Clay is mainly plastic. All samples demonstrate high initial modulus at different confining pressures. The failure surface of samples is not planar but a curved surface.

Key words: Red clay, Triaxial shear tests, Stress-strain relationships