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Matric suction creep is the creep of unsaturated soil caused by loading constant matric suction. Matric suction creep characteristics of reticulated red clay with constant net confing pressure and step-loading matric suction was studied using stress-controlling unsaturated triaxial test apparatus. Test and analysis results show that: (1) with constant net confining pressure, axial and radial strain of the clay caused by creep due to matric suction increases obviously; (2) the increments of axial strain of the clay, caused by creep due to matric suction under constant net confining pressure, is not the same as that of radial strain, and the absolute value of radial strain is bigger than that of axial strain; (3) creep strain produced by the same amount of matric suction decreases as the increasing of the matric suction during step loading creep, which means that matric suction makes the clay hard; and (4) the creep strain-time curves of both axial and radial creep can be simulated very well by exponential decay function, and the parameters of the function are matric suction depend obviously.
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Li, J., Yang, Y. Matric Suction Creep Characteristics of Reticulated Red Clay. KSCE J Civ Eng 22, 3837–3842 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12205-018-0650-1
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