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Development of a new soil-structure contact stress sensor for underground construction applications 为地下建筑应用开发新型土壤-结构接触应力传感器

Géotechnique Pub Date : 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.23.00202

Jack Templeman, Brian Sheil

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Axial behaviour of steel pipelines buried in sand: effects of surface roughness and hardness 埋在沙中的钢制管道的轴向行为：表面粗糙度和硬度的影响

Géotechnique Pub Date : 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.24.00001

Chang Guo, Chao Zhou

{"title":"Axial behaviour of steel pipelines buried in sand: effects of surface roughness and hardness","authors":"Chang Guo, Chao Zhou","doi":"10.1680/jgeot.24.00001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.24.00001","url":null,"abstract":"Surface roughness and coating hardness of underground pipelines are expected to play decisive roles in their axial pullout behaviour, which is an important aspect of pipeline design. Existing guidelines and previous studies underestimated or ignored these effects, resulting in potentially unsafe design. To address this problem, the current study conducted nine large-scale physical modelling tests on pipes in dry and dense sand. Five steel pipes with varying normalised roughness (0.04-1.01) and coating hardness (32.6-59.0 HRA) were used and instrumented with a novel type of film-like piezoresistive sensors for measuring soil-pipe contact pressure. The measured pullout resistance of rough pipes is 2.70-2.85 times of smooth pipes, significantly greater than the value specified in current design guidelines (i.e., 1.17 times). This substantial increase stems from an increase in interface friction coefficient (accounting for 72-79%) and a contact pressure increase induced by constrained dilation and soil arching (contributing the remaining 21-28%). Regarding coating hardness, a critical hardness was observed (around 35 HRA). Due to equivalent roughness from particle embedding, pipes with hardness below this value exhibited similar behaviour to rough pipes. Finally, a new and simple method was proposed for calculating the pullout resistance with consideration of the effects of roughness and dilatancy.","PeriodicalId":508398,"journal":{"name":"Géotechnique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141824646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Quantification of spatial heterogeneity and its influence on particle migration 空间异质性的量化及其对粒子迁移的影响

Géotechnique Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.23.00083

V. S. Ramakrishna Annapareddy, A. Sufian, T. Bore, Alexander Scheuermann

{"title":"Quantification of spatial heterogeneity and its influence on particle migration","authors":"V. S. Ramakrishna Annapareddy, A. Sufian, T. Bore, Alexander Scheuermann","doi":"10.1680/jgeot.23.00083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.23.00083","url":null,"abstract":"Suffusion experiments were utilised to quantify the evolving degree of heterogeneity in gap-graded soils. Upward flow was imposed on test specimens comprising a mixture layer with varying finer fraction contents overlaid by a coarse layer. A coaxial permeameter cell enabled the local permeability to be obtained using spatial time domain reflectometry. Three methods (coefficient of variation, Dykstra-Parsons coefficient, and Lorenz coefficient) were employed to quantify heterogeneity based on spatial variability in local permeability. For the two-layered specimen in this study, all three methods demonstrated that suffusion had a homogenising effect with particle migration from the mixture layer to the coarse layer. Detailed insights were obtained from a multi-layered approach, where the Dykstra-Parsons coefficient was found to be more sensitive to spatial variations, while the Lorenz coefficient was less dependent on the amount of data. The key observation was that an increase in heterogeneity led to a reduction in particle migration. This is an important finding as prior studies focused on homogeneous specimens, while this study demonstrates that small amounts of heterogeneity can significantly impact particle migration characteristics. This reinforces the need to quantify the evolving degree of heterogeneity.","PeriodicalId":508398,"journal":{"name":"Géotechnique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141831807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Particle tracking–aided digital volume correlation for clay-sand soil mixtures 粘土-砂土混合物的粒子跟踪辅助数字体积相关性

Géotechnique Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.24.00036

Mengmeng Wu, Jianfeng Wang, Bing Pan, Zhenyu Yin

{"title":"Particle tracking–aided digital volume correlation for clay-sand soil mixtures","authors":"Mengmeng Wu, Jianfeng Wang, Bing Pan, Zhenyu Yin","doi":"10.1680/jgeot.24.00036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.24.00036","url":null,"abstract":"This study introduces a novel, interdisciplinary method that merges fundamental geomechanics with computer vision to develop an advanced hybrid feature-aided Digital Volume Correlation (DVC) technique. This technique is specifically engineered to measure and compute the full-field strain distribution in fine-grained soil mixtures. A clay-sand mixture specimen composed of quartz sand particles and kaolinite was created. Its mechanical properties and deformation behaviour were then tested using a mini-triaxial apparatus, combined with micro-focus X-ray Computed Tomography (μCT). The CT slices underwent image processing for denoising, segmentation of distinct phases, reconstruction of sand particles, and feature extraction within the soil specimen. The proposed approach incorporated a two-step particle tracking method, which initially uses particle volume and surface area features to establish a preliminary matching list for a reference particle and then use the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) method for precise target particle matching. The soil specimen's initial displacement field was then mapped onto the DVC method's grid, and further refined through subvoxel registration via a three-dimensional inverse compositional Gauss-Newton algorithm. The proposed method's effectiveness and efficiency were validated by accurately calculating the displacement and strain fields of the soil mixture sample, and comparing the results with those from a traditional DVC method. Given the soil's compositional and microstructural characteristics, these image-matching techniques can be integrated to create a versatile, efficient, and robust DVC system, suitable for a variety of soil mixture types.","PeriodicalId":508398,"journal":{"name":"Géotechnique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141655947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Constitutive modelling in computational geomechanics – 61st Rankine lecture, British Geotechnical Association, 2023 计算地质力学中的构造建模 - 第 61 次兰金讲座，英国岩土工程协会，2023 年

Géotechnique Pub Date : 2024-07-09 DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.23.rl.001

John P. Carter

{"title":"Constitutive modelling in computational geomechanics – 61st Rankine lecture, British Geotechnical Association, 2023","authors":"John P. Carter","doi":"10.1680/jgeot.23.rl.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.23.rl.001","url":null,"abstract":"Constitutive models are an essential part of computational modelling in geotechnics; they are at the heart of almost all theoretical predictions of geotechnical structures. How the stress-strain (and perhaps time) response of soil (and rock) is represented in these mathematical models is usually the key to successful prediction of the behaviour of geotechnical structures. However, the important details of these models, particularly the idealisations that are made, may be poorly or incompletely understood, or ignored, sometimes at significant cost to the unwary analyst. Indeed, the capabilities and the shortcomings of these models, especially the more advanced models, are not always easy to ascertain. In some cases, determination of the values of the input parameters is not straightforward. Consequently, it may be difficult to determine which model to select for a particular task. This paper explores some of the more important developments in the constitutive modelling of soils and addresses some of these issues of potential concern. The need for such models and the various attributes and capabilities that the commonly used models possess is reviewed. Also discussed is the issue of matching a particular model to the geotechnical problem at hand, which model attributes are required and why. The intention is to place emphasis on the physical basis of these models, rather than explore their mathematical complexity in detail. Some of the constitutive models encoded in the software packages used routinely in geotechnical practice are reviewed, and discussion is also provided on their specific limitations. Examples of practical applications, involving the solution of boundary and initial value problems, are described to illustrate both the advantages and some of the limitations of both commonly used and highly advanced constitutive models.","PeriodicalId":508398,"journal":{"name":"Géotechnique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141665049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Maximum shear modulus anisotropy of rooted soils 扎根土壤的最大剪切模量各向异性

Géotechnique Pub Date : 2024-07-09 DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.23.00496

Ali Akbar Karimzadeh, Anthony Kwan Leung, Zhiwei Gao

{"title":"Maximum shear modulus anisotropy of rooted soils","authors":"Ali Akbar Karimzadeh, Anthony Kwan Leung, Zhiwei Gao","doi":"10.1680/jgeot.23.00496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.23.00496","url":null,"abstract":"The maximum shear modulus (G0(ij)) of rooted soils is crucial for assessing the deformation and liquefaction potential of vegetated infrastructures under seismic loading conditions. However, no data or theory is available to account for the anisotropy of G0(ij) of rooted soils. This study presents a new model that can predict G0(ij) anisotropy of rooted soils by incorporating the projection of the stress tensor on two independent tensors that describe soil fabric and root network. Bender element tests were conducted on bare and vegetated specimens under isotropic and anisotropic loading conditions. The presence of roots in the soil increased G0(VH) at all confining pressures (p′), as well as G0(HH) and G0(HV) at low p′. However, the trend was reversed at higher p′ because the roots reduced the effects of confinement on G0(ij) by replacing stronger soil–soil interfaces with weaker soil–root interfaces. Roots made the soil fabric and G0(ij) more anisotropic. The proposed model can effectively predict the observed anisotropy of G0(ij) under isotropic and anisotropic loading conditions. The new model also offers a new method for determining the fabric anisotropy of sand based on the anisotropy of shear modulus.","PeriodicalId":508398,"journal":{"name":"Géotechnique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141664117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Role of bacteria on bio-induced calcium carbonate formation: insights from droplet microfluidic experiments 细菌对生物诱导碳酸钙形成的作用：液滴微流体实验的启示

Géotechnique Pub Date : 2024-07-08 DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.24.01107

Jinxuan Zhang, Yang Xiao, Hanlong Liu, Jian Chu

{"title":"Role of bacteria on bio-induced calcium carbonate formation: insights from droplet microfluidic experiments","authors":"Jinxuan Zhang, Yang Xiao, Hanlong Liu, Jian Chu","doi":"10.1680/jgeot.24.01107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.24.01107","url":null,"abstract":"Microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) has emerged as a promising solution for geotechnical issues. However, the role of bacteria in the formation of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) remains incompletely comprehended. In this study, a droplet microfluidic chip was developed to observe the growth process of CaCO3 and bacterial behavior during the MICP process under various bacterial density conditions at the monocrystal-scale. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) was then utilized to analyze the CaCO3 morphology, and Raman spectroscopy was employed to identify CaCO3 polymorphs. Nucleation within microspaces showed a stochastic nature. Within the droplets where crystals formed, all crystals manifested as cubic calcite. Higher bacterial density led to the formation of larger and more irregularly shaped crystals, with crystal size showing a significant correlation with urease activity. In droplets where no crystals formed, higher bacterial density and urease activity resulted in the precipitation of amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) on the bacterial surface. However, this precipitation pattern differed from the formation of monocrystalline CaCO3. Our results demonstrate that bacteria act primarily as urease secretors to regulate crystal growth during the MICP process, while their role as nucleation sites for crystals remains controversial. This study provides a novel insight into understanding the bio-induced CaCO3 formation mechanism.","PeriodicalId":508398,"journal":{"name":"Géotechnique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141670045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Anisotropic hydraulic conductivity of as-compacted, bare and vegetated soils 压实土、裸土和植被土的各向异性导水率

Géotechnique Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.23.00248

Mostafa Gholami, Hamed Sadeghi, Pouya AliPanahi

{"title":"Anisotropic hydraulic conductivity of as-compacted, bare and vegetated soils","authors":"Mostafa Gholami, Hamed Sadeghi, Pouya AliPanahi","doi":"10.1680/jgeot.23.00248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.23.00248","url":null,"abstract":"Soils are generally considered anisotropic with respect to hydraulic conductivity, while the evolution of anisotropy condition is unknown for bare and vegetated soils. Therefore, the main goal of this study is to compare the anisotropic hydraulic conductivity of as-compacted, bare, and vegetated specimens. Accordingly, a series of 54 hydraulic conductivity tests were conducted in a custom-made cube triaxial permeameter. The as-compacted specimens were revealed isotropic because the loosely packed preparation procedure resulted in a dominant flocculent structure. However, a fivefold increase in the anisotropy ratio of bare specimens was measured along the isotropic loading path because of the induced surficial degradation zone formed by irrigation and desiccation processes as evident in preliminary observations and crack network analysis. The variations in anisotropy ratio vs. void ratio function of vegetated soil generally fall below the corresponding function of the bare soil. The function was revealed to have a crossed nature, varying from sub-isotropic to super-isotropic states, corresponding to the lower and upper bounds of 0.3 and 3, respectively. It was postulated that vegetation impacts the flow differently by reducing the potential of desiccation cracks, creating preferential flow through the propagation of primary roots and clogging flow channels by secondary roots.","PeriodicalId":508398,"journal":{"name":"Géotechnique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141705658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Strength behaviour of stacked phosphogypsum incorporating dissolution–recrystallisation equilibrium 包含溶解-重结晶平衡的堆叠磷石膏的强度行为

Géotechnique Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.23.00508

Zhang Zheng Cai, Han Ke, Peng Ze Zhang, J. Lan, Peng Cheng Ma, Jie Hu, Bo Xiao, Yunmin Chen

{"title":"Strength behaviour of stacked phosphogypsum incorporating dissolution–recrystallisation equilibrium","authors":"Zhang Zheng Cai, Han Ke, Peng Ze Zhang, J. Lan, Peng Cheng Ma, Jie Hu, Bo Xiao, Yunmin Chen","doi":"10.1680/jgeot.23.00508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.23.00508","url":null,"abstract":"Large phosphogypsum (PG) stacks risk dam failure, with an insufficient consensus on the shear strength parameters for stability analysis. To this end, a combination of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and triaxial tests was undertaken to investigate the underlying mechanism between crystal structure and shear strength of in situ and remoulded PG samples. The shear strength and deformation of PG were significantly affected by dissolution and recrystallisation. Dissolution weakened the cementation between particles, leading to a stabilisation of approximate 11 kPa under different confining pressures in the initial shear stage. The hardening phenomenon was related to the formation of cluster crystals under saturated conditions. An increase from 1.57 to 1.73 in the critical state stress ratio on remoulded samples occurred as the K0 consolidation time increased from 4 to 28 days. The compressive deformation of PG is accompanied by chemical consolidation, which is mainly impacted by the consolidation conditions (saturation) rather than the consolidation time. In the engineering design of the PG stacks, φ’ could be taken to a higher value at saturation and c’ could be higher when the dry density is higher than 1.2.","PeriodicalId":508398,"journal":{"name":"Géotechnique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141703300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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On the mechanical behaviour of a coral silt from the South China Sea 论南海珊瑚淤泥的力学行为

Géotechnique Pub Date : 2024-06-13 DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.24.00012

Ting Yao, Ziwei Cao, Wei Li

{"title":"On the mechanical behaviour of a coral silt from the South China Sea","authors":"Ting Yao, Ziwei Cao, Wei Li","doi":"10.1680/jgeot.24.00012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.24.00012","url":null,"abstract":"During land reclamation on the reef islands, large amounts of silt-sized coral soils were created by segregation and degradation. The accumulation of silt-sized coral soils is fairy uncommon while the research on the geotechnical properties of the coral silt is very limited. In this study, a systematic experimental investigation on the mechanical behaviour of coral silt obtained from a reclaimed reef island in the South China Sea has been performed, with comparisons to the coral sand collected from the same area. Similar to the coral sand, the coral silt particles also exhibit irregular particle shape and intra-particle pore due to their nature origin. According to the limiting water contents, the coral silt is classified as a low-plasticity clayey silt. Under one-dimensional compression, the coral silt exhibits a much quicker convergence compared to coral sand. Prior to convergence, the compressibility of coral silt is higher. After yielding, the compressibility of coral sand becomes higher due to significant particle breakage. The loose coral silt subjected to undrained shearing at low confining pressures exhibits obvious strain softening behaviour, indicating static liquefaction or flow failure. The critical state and peak friction angles of coral silt are lower than those of coral sand but much higher than those of the other terrigenous clayey silts. A curved critical state line with well-defined horizontal asymptote in the deviatoric stress - mean effective stress plane is identified for coral silt, again indicating higher potential to static liquefaction.","PeriodicalId":508398,"journal":{"name":"Géotechnique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141347749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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