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Estimation of Tensile Strength of Soils from Penetration Resistance

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Title Estimation of Tensile Strength of Soils from Penetration Resistance
 
Creator TEJ, PR
SINGH, DN
 
Subject Penetration
Tensile strength
Laboratory tests
Soil strength
Structural stability
Cracking
Freeze and thaw
Soils
Penetration resistance
Tensile strength
Generalized relationships
Laboratory investigations
UNSATURATED SOILS
COMPACTED CLAYS
REMOLDED SOILS
CONDUCTIVITY
FRACTURE
 
Description Tensile strength of soil plays a decisive role in formation/initiation of cracks and their propagation, and its knowledge is essential to study and analyze the stability of earth-fill dams, slopes, embankments, highways, airfield pavements, deterioration of cricket pitches, and development of ice lenses during freezing. Many researchers have worked on determination of tensile strength of soil, and many methodologies and subsequent correlations between the tensile strength and basic properties of soil have been developed and reported. However, these methodologies are time-consuming and yield results that are soil specific. Further, these studies either neglect the effect of overall soil properties or the water content of soil, which are the most crucial parameters affecting tensile strength. An undermined fact is that there are no easy to adopt methodologies or generalized relationships available in the literature that would yield tensile strength of soil quickly and precisely. As such, to address this issue, a simple methodology for determining the tensile strength of soil, based on its penetration resistance, has been proposed, and its utility and efficiency has been demonstrated.
 
Publisher ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS
 
Date 2014-10-14T17:09:20Z
2014-10-14T17:09:20Z
2013
 
Type Article
 
Identifier INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOMECHANICS, 13(5)496-501
1532-3641
1943-5622
http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0000234
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/14531
 
Language en