The Relationship

Between SFCC and

SWCC
CEE:463 Individual Research Project in CE 1

Anna Loskutova Jong Ryeol Kim

 Introduction

Problem

Objectives

Literature Review

Experiments Review

Results and Discussion

Table of Conclusion

Content
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Introduction

Detrimental influence of soil behaviour

on structures' stability
SFCC and SWCC
Investigations for better understanding
the SFCC to use in cold regions
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Frozen Soils Behaviour

Affects the Stability of
Infrastructures
The level of soil moisture is a critical factor in
potential detrimental influence.
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Objectives

To investigate the relationship between To analyze existing soil models based on

soil freezing and soil water characteristic SFCC and SWCC relationship for further
curves (SFCC and SWCC). investigation (IRP 2).
Challenges: lack of information, outdated Challenges: variety of models, focus on soil resilent
information modulus, one model can't fit all the types of soils

Literature Review
Characteristics of SFCC and SWCC
Hysteresis of SFCC and SWCC
Adsorptive and Capillary Forces
Physical Processes
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Equations fit the measured SFCCs of soils
Exponential relationship
Fredlund and Xing (1994) equation
Clapeyron equation
Van Genutchen equation
Power relationship
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Experiments Review

NMR
Standard Compaction Test
Measures the unfrozen water
Measures the liquid amount of
SEM content
water for both SFCC and
More reliable
SWCC
Analyze the soil structure More complex
Requires caloibration of
before and after freezing- sensons
thawing process Less sensistive
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Results

Fredlund and Xing model

able to provide excellent
approximation for all the
four soils, including the
saline soil.

Comparison between the measured and best-fitted

SFCCs (Ren and Vanapalli,2017)
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Results

Comparison of SWCC and SFCC (Ren аnd Vanapalli, 2019)

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Analysis and Conclusion

Fredlund and Xing The similarity between The dissimilarity of

model able to provide SFCC and SWCC could SFCC and SWCC on
excellent be achieved in the practice
approximation for all specific temperature
the four soils, including range
the saline soil.
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