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Determination of collapse and consolidation behavior of cohesionless soils

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Cohesionless soil deposits are susceptible to volume changes due to extensive seasonal weather variations in the Canadian Prairies. This research aimed to develop a clear understanding of the collapse and consolidation behavior of cohesionless soils. The primary contributions of this work include the development of an odometer test with controlled water inflow and digital data recording and sample preparation methods to capture in situ states of geological deposits (zero suction in fresh sediments and field suction in undisturbed deposits) as well as the successful application of the steady state drying path in water retention to the transient wetting path in odometer testing and the preclusion of hysteresis in uniformly graded cohesionless soils with negligible amounts of clays. Results indicate that with an increase in pre-collapse stress from 25 to 600 kPa, unsaturated compression increased from 0.5 to 5.3% in disintegrable soil and up to 0.5% in intact soil, and this trend was reversed during wetting collapse. Over the same stress range, the total collapse increased from 2 to 5.6% and from 6 to 9%, respectively. Likewise, the compression index increased (0.12 to 0.14 for disintegrable soil and 0.14 to 0.18 for intact soil) and the swelling index was constant at 0.01. During wetting collapse, the transient void ratio change exhibited a curvilinear trend comprising an early flat initiation (30 to 300 min) followed by an intermediate steep progression (170 to 600 min) and a final flat completion. This trend was similar to the void ratio versus water content plot where the degree of saturation increased from 10 to 70% during collapse initiation and 40 to 80% during collapse progression.

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Akram, I., Azam, S. Determination of collapse and consolidation behavior of cohesionless soils. Bull Eng Geol Environ 81, 458 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-022-02956-w

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