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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Effects of pre-shearing stress ratio on the mechanical behaviours of gap-graded soils subjected to internal erosion |
Author: | Nguyen, T.V. Bui, H.H. Tran, K.M. Nguyen, G.D. Haque, A. |
Citation: | Computers and Geotechnics, 2024; 166:105991-1-105991-10 |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Issue Date: | 2024 |
ISSN: | 0266-352X 1873-7633 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Tien V. Nguyen, Ha H. Bui, Khoa M. Tran, Giang D. Nguyen, Asadul Haque |
Abstract: | Internal erosion can induce significant changes in the mechanical properties of soils, posing various hazards to dam and dike structures. Despite its importance, our current understanding of this phenomenon remains incomplete. The influence of pre-shearing stress conditions on the mechanical behaviours of soils during the internal erosion process is particularly challenging, as existing experiments have not been able to maintain the constant pre-shearing stress ratios. To bridge this gap in knowledge, this paper presents a series of discrete element method (DEM) simulations focused on gap-graded cohesionless soil. The primary objective of these simulations is to investigate two specific cases of internal erosion: suffusion and suffosion processes. Soil specimens are subjected to different pre-shearing stress ratios in the standard triaxial tests before being submitted to different levels of erosion to study their constitutive responses. The results show that erosion-induced deformation (i.e. suffosion) only starts after a specific amount of mass loss. This mass loss and the pre-shearing stress ratio form a well-defined criterion for triggering suffosion, which is named “suffosion surface”. The volumetric strain is shown to be a better indicator to describe the suffosion process than the commonly used void ratio. The pre-shearing stress ratio significantly influences the suffosion response of the soil sample, with a higher preshearing stress ratio facilitating soil failure. Furthermore, soil specimens undergo both deviatoric and volumetric responses during the suffosion process. To this end, new DEM-based statistical equations were proposed to describe the observed mechanisms, which are helpful for the future development of constitutive models to describe internal soil erosion. |
Keywords: | DEM; Internal erosion; Suffusion; Suffosion; Gap-graded soils; Pre-shearing stress |
Rights: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.compgeo.2023.105991 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190102779 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT200100884 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2023.105991 |
Appears in Collections: | Research Outputs |
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