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Determination of Soil Stiffness Parameters
Determination of Soil Stiffness Parameters
Parameters
Stein Sture
Professor of Civil Engineering
University of Colorado at Boulder
Contents
General concepts and stiffness of sand
Hookes law
E-moduli from triaxial testing
E-moduli from oedometer testing
Examples on the estimation of E
Stiffness of clays
Undrained clay behavior
Drained clay behavior
Examples on the estimation of E
Idealizedtypesofstressstrainbehaviors:(a)nonlinearelastic
Model,(b)linearelasticmodel,and(c)elastoplasticmodel
Hooke: 1 2
E (1 2 ) Eoed Eoed ( 13 )
1 3
Loose: E 2 y
ref
150 ref
p 3 p
Dense: E 2 y
ref
500 ref
p 3 p
Computational Geotechnics Determination of Soil Stiffness Parameters
Oedometer Test on Sand
'
'y x 2 'x
K0
E 2 x x
Loose: 150 2 150
p ref 3 p ref p ref
Dense: E 2 x x
ref
500 2 ref
500 ref
p 3 p p
Thisimplies: E E 50
Computational Geotechnics Determination of Soil Stiffness Parameters
Summary on Stiffness Parameters:
Sand
(Laboratorybasedexperience)
2
E E 50 E oed 13
3
E ' 'x
Loose: 150 x
'x Loose: E 15MPa ref
ref
p p ref
EE ref p
p ref
Dense:
E
500
'
x
Dense: E 50MPa '
x
p ref
p ref p ref
Layer1(extremelyloosesand ref
E 50 15MPa
MohrCoulombmodel:
Mohr-Coulomb model:
Layer 1: 2 1.5 55kPa
'
y
'
'x 27.5kPa
E 4 45000 27.5
100 95000kPa
Layer 3: 'x 10kPa E 4 30000 0.10 38000kPa
Computational Geotechnics Determination of Soil Stiffness Parameters
Eoed from Cone Penetration Test in
Sands
Cone Resistance: qc
Correlation: E oed qc
NC-Sand: = 1 to 3
Literature
Vermeers Experience: = 3
15000Cu
Normallyconsolidatedclay: E u50
Ip%
Duncan&Buchignani(1976)
Computational Geotechnics Determination of Soil Stiffness Parameters
Plate Loading Tests
Do not use empirical relationships only. Get good quality experimental data from lab tests, cone
penetration tests and vane tests