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This behavior, critical state soil mechanics simply assumes as a given. For these reasons, critical-state and elasto-plastic soil mechanics have been subject to charges of scholasticism; the tests to demonstrated its validity are usually "conformation tests" where only simple stress-strain curves are demonstrated to be modeled satisfactorily.
A critical state line separates the dilatant and contractive states for soil. The tendency for a soil to dilate or contract depends primarily on the confining pressure and the void ratio of the soil. The rate of dilation is high if the confining pressure is small and the void ratio is small.
A more advanced understanding of the behaviour of soil undergoing shearing led to the development of the critical state theory of soil mechanics (Roscoe, Schofield & Wroth 1958). In critical state soil mechanics, a distinct shear strength is identified where the soil undergoing shear does so at a constant volume, also called the 'critical state'.
Critical state soil mechanics, Cam Clay, Geotechnical centrifuge modelling: Spouse: Margaret Green (m.1961) Awards: US Army Distinguished Civilian Service Award, 1979 20th Rankine Lecture, 1980 Fellow [1] of the Royal Academy of Engineering, [2] 1986 Fellow of the Royal Society, 1992 James Alfred Ewing Gold Medal from the Institution of Civil ...
When we remould soft soil in a classification test, its strength is [(suction) x (friction)], it remains ductile plastic material with constant "apparent cohesion" while it flows at constant volume, because it is at a constant effective stress, and critical state friction is constant. Critical state soil mechanics analyses the bearing capacity ...
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Muir Wood, D. (1990), Soil Behaviour and Critical State Soil Mechanics, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521337828 Muir Wood, D. (2003), Geotechnical modelling , CRC Press, ISBN 1351990047 Muir Wood, D. (2009), Soil Mechanics: A One-Dimensional Introduction , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521517737
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