An improved Mesri creep model for unsaturated weak intercalated soils

The weak intercalated soils in redbed soft rocks of Badong formation have obvious creep characters. In order to predict the unsaturated creep behaviors of weak intercalated soils, an unsaturated creep model was established based on the unsaturated creep tests of weak intercalated soils by using GDS triaxial apparatus. The results show that the creep behaviors of intercalated soils are apparent and significantly affected by matric suction. Based on this, an empirical Mesri creep model for intercalated soils under varying matric suctions was built. The fitting results show that the parameters Ed and m of this model are in good power relations with matric suction s and stress level Dr, respectively. An improved Mesri creep model was established involving stress-matric suction-strain-time, which is more precise than the Mesri creep model in predicting the unsaturated creep behaviors of weak intercalated soils.

Creep model for unsaturated soils in sliding zone of Qianjiangping landslide

The mechanical behavior of sliding zone soils plays a significant role in landslide. In general, the sliding zone soils are basically in unsaturated state due to rainfall infiltration and reservoir water level fluctuation. Meanwhile, a large number of examples show that the deformation processes of landslides always take a long period of time, indicating that landslides exhibit a time-dependent property. Therefore, the deforma- tion of unsaturated soils of landslide involves creep behaviors. In this paper, the Burgers creep model for unsaturated soils under triaxial stress state is considered based on the unsaturated soil mechanics. Then, by curve fitting using the least squares method, creep parameters in different matric suction states are obtained based on the creep test data of unsaturated soils in the sliding zones of Qianjiangping landslide. Results show that the predicted results are in good agreement with the experimental data, Finally, to fur- ther explore the creep characteristics of the unsaturated soils in sliding zones, the relationships between parameters of the model and matric suction are analyzed and a revised Burgers creep model is developed correspondingly. Simulations on another group of test data are performed by using the modified Burgers creep model and reasonable results are observed,

滑坡滑带土非饱和蠕变特性试验研究

在库水位变动及降雨入渗作用下,一方面,滑坡土体在饱和与非饱和状态之间转化,土体强度和变形具有非饱和土的特性;另一方面,滑坡变形发展大都经历了一个时间过程,具有流变特性,因此,考虑吸力(含水率)作用的非饱和土蠕变特性对于水作用下的坡体长期稳定性研究具有非常重要的意义。以三峡库区某大型滑坡滑动带土为研究对象,开展了一系列非饱和三轴蠕变试验,给出了不同偏应力荷载,不同基质吸力条件下的蠕变试验曲线。试验结果表明,同一偏应力荷载下,随着吸力逐渐减小,蠕变变形及蠕变速率均不断增加,且随偏应力荷载的增加增幅更大。在此基础上,建立了各级吸力水平下滑动带土的Mesri蠕变模型,即剪应力–应变关系采用双曲线模型,应变–时间关系采用幂函数。接着,通过建立吸力与Mesri模型参数—初始排水切线模量Ed之间的函数关系,构建了滑动带土的应力–吸力–应变–时间模型。最后,通过该模型的预测值与试验值的对比分析,发现模型能较合理地预测滑坡滑动带土的蠕变特性。

魏家沟滑坡滑带土非饱和蠕变特性试验研究

滑带是滑坡的一个重要结构要素,滑带土则是滑坡滑动过程中形成的特殊岩土体,其蠕变特性是滑坡动态演化过程的直接反映.降雨是滑坡失稳的重要诱因,在降雨入渗的条件下会导致滑带土常年处于非饱和状态,研究降雨条件下的滑坡滑带土非饱和蠕变特性具有很重要的意义.以栾川魏家沟滑坡滑带土为研究对象,开展了一系列非饱和土蠕变试验.采用陈氏加载法,得到了相同净围压、不同基质吸力、不同应力水平下的蠕变试验曲线.采用Boltzmann叠加原理对数据进行处理,分析滑带土非饱和蠕变特性,发现同一偏应力水平下,蠕变变形及变形速率均随着偏应力的增大而增大,且随着基质吸力的减小而增大;建立了一种包含基质吸力的Singh-Mitchell蠕变模型,即剪应力-应变关系采用指数函数表示,应变-时间关系采用幂函数表示.

基质吸力对非饱和离子型稀土抗剪强度的影响

掌握基质吸力对非饱和离子型稀土抗剪强度的影响,对于认清水对矿体强度的弱化作用具有重要意义。现场测试了矿体的土-水特征曲线和抗剪强度,由此得到基质吸力对矿体抗剪强度的影响特性,即随着基质吸力的增大,矿体的内摩擦角略有增大,黏聚力大幅增大。同时,根据进气值所代表的物理意义进行分析可知,当基质吸力小于进气值时,基质吸力对抗剪强度的贡献速率可看成一稳定值;当基质吸力大于进气值时,基质吸力对抗剪强度的贡献速率逐渐减小。由此,以进气值为分界点,提出非饱和强度改进模型,通过改进模型计算得到的抗剪强度贡献值与现场实测值的误差绝对值基本在15%以内,且优于其他模型预测结果,表明本文的非饱和强度改进模型是有效的。