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The influence of structure on the shear strength of intact lumps of miocene fissured clay

  • Formation Of Clays And Their Engineering-Geological Properties
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Afin de vérifier l’influence de la structure naturelle sur la résistance au cisaillement, on a étudié des fragments intacts d’une argilite fissurée brune d’une ferme consistance.

L’étude microscopique de la structure a montré qu’il n’existe pas un arrangement préférentiel des agrégats de particules argileuses.

A l’intérieur des agrégats par contre, les particules possèdent très probablement un arrangement parallèie.

Lors de la filtration de l’eau souterraine par le sol, de très minces couches de limonite se sont formées ; il en résulte une anisotropie des propriétés déformantes des sols.

Des essais de cisaillement direct drainés ont montré que dans le sens technique il n’existe pas d’anisotropie des valeurs effectives de la résistance au cisaillement.

Des épreuves triaxiales sans drainage et isotropiquement consolidées mesurant la pression de l’eau intersticielle ont montré que la valeur effective de la résistance au cisaillement ne dépend pas de la répartition de la charge. Par contre la résistance au cisaillement non drainé varie sous l’influence de la répartition de la charge.

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For the study of the influence of natural structure on the shear strength, the samples cut from intact lumps of brown stiff fissured clay were tested.

Microscopic study of structure has shown that there is no preferred arrangement of aggregates of clay particles. On the other hand, however, the particles building up the aggregates have most probably parallel arrangement.

Due to the seepage of groundwater, very thin horizontal layers of hydroxides of iron (limonite) had been precipitated and cross anisotropy of deformation properties has been formed.

Drained shear box tests have shown that there is no anisotropy of effective values of shear strength from the technical point of view.

The results of undrained triaxial tests with porewater-pressure measurements on isotropically consolidated samples have revealed that the effective values of shear strength are independent of the manner of loading. On the other hand, the undrained shear strength has had strong dependence on the way of loading.

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Herštus, J. The influence of structure on the shear strength of intact lumps of miocene fissured clay. Bulletin of the International Association of Engineering Geology 5, 39–42 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02634649

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