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Critical State Soil Mechanics (CSSM)
Critical State Soil Mechanics (CSSM)
2006
Background
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Strength Parameters:
120
100
100
(kPa)
n'
120
Peak
80
Shear Stress,
Peak
135.0
60
40
Peak
20
45.1
80
60
40
20
0
Displacement,
10
50
(mm)
100
150
200
n'
(kPa)
gs
Direct Shear Box (DSB)
250
The critical Ssate concept states that soils and other granular
materials, if continuously distorted (sheared) until they flow as a
frictional fluid, will come into a well-defined critical state. At the onset
of the critical state, shear distortions occur without any further
changes in mean effective stress or deviatoric stress or void ratio. The
void ratio at the critical state is called the critical state void ratio.
Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Critical_state_soil_mechanics>
1D Consolidation Theory
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One-Dimensional Consolidation
vo'=300 kPa
p'=900
Cr = 0.04
kPa
Void Ratio, e
Cc = 0.38
0.8
0.7
0.6
10000
CC
NC
CSL
Void Ratio, e
Void Ratio, e
NC
CSL
CSSM Premise:
All stress paths fail
on the critical state
line (CSL)
Shear stress
Log v'
c=0
CSL
tanf'
f
Effective stress v'
The above statement means that the critical state line forms an
envelope that defines the failure state of soil. This failure or critical
state is a function of the state of stress (vertical or mean effective
stress and shear stress) and the void ratio.
Void Ratio, e
CC
e0
De
NC
ef
Void Ratio, e
NC
CSL
CSL
vo
Log v'
CSL
max = c + tanf
c=0
tanf'
vo
CC
e0
NC
Void Ratio, e
Void Ratio, e
NC
CSL
CSL
vf
vo
Log v'
Shear stress
CSL
tanf'
Du
max = cu=su
vf
vo
NC
Void Ratio, e
Void Ratio, e
CC
NC
CSL
CSL
su/vo = constant
DSS: su/voNC = sinf
Shear stress
Log v'
CSL
tanf'
NC
Void Ratio, e
CS
OC
NC
CSL
CSL
Effective stress v'
p'
Log v'
Overconsolidated States:
e0, vo, and OCR = p/vo
where p = vmax = Pc =
preconsolidation stress;
CSL
Shear stress
Void Ratio, e
CC
tanf'
p'
NC
Void Ratio, e
Void Ratio, e
CC
OC
NC
CSL
CSL
vf'
Log v'
Shear stress
vo'
Negative Excess Du
CSL
tanf'
Du
vo'
Yield Surfaces
NC
NC
Void Ratio, e
Void Ratio, e
CSL
OC
OC
p'
CSL
p'
Quasi-elastic behavior
within the yield surface
Shear stress
Log v'
The behavior of the soil is elastic until the state of stress on the soil
reaches the yield surface. After that, the soil behaves in a plastic
manner and undergoes both elastic and plastic strains. The yield
surface will expand as the soil dilates or strain hardens: it will contract
as the soil contracts or strain softens until the critical state is reached.
At this point, this yield surface no longer changes and is known as the
yield surface at critical state.
Summary of CSSM
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