CHAPTER11StrengthandDeformationBehavior11.1INTRODUCTIONInreality,theshearingresistanceofasoildependsonmanyfactors,andacompleteequationmightbeofAllaspectsofsoilstability—bearingcapacity,slopetheformstability,thesupportingcapacityofdeepfoundations,andpenetrationresistance,tonameafew—dependonShearingresistanceϭF(e,c , , ,C,H,T, , ˙,S)soilstrength.Thestress–deformationandstress–deformation–timebehaviorofsoilsareimportantin(11.3)anyproblemwheregroundmovementsareofinterest.Mostrelationshipsforthecharacterizationoftheinwhicheisthevoidratio,Cisthecomposition,H stress–deformationandstrengthpropertiesofsoilsareisthestresshistory,Tisthetemperature,isthestrain, empiricalandbasedonphenomenologicaldescriptions˙isthestrainrate,andSisthestructure.Allparam-ofsoilbehavior.TheMohr–Coulombequationisbyetersintheseequationsmaynotbeindependent,andfarthemostwidelyusedforstrength.Itstatesthatthefunctionalformsofallofthemarenotknown.Consequently,theshearresistancevalues(includingc and )aredeterminedusingspecifiedtesttype(i.e., ϭcϩ tan (11.1)directshear,triaxialcompression,simpleshear),drain-ffffageconditions,rateofloading,rangeofconfining ϭ ϩ ffcfftan(11.2)pressures,andstresshistory.Asaresult,differentfric-tionanglesandcohesionvalueshavebeendefined,in-cludingparametersfortotalstress,effectivestress, whereffisshearstressatfailureonthefailureplane,drained,undrained,peakstrength,andresidual cisacohesionintercept,ffisthenormalstressonthestrength.Theshearresistancevaluesapplicableinfailureplane,and isafrictionangle.Equation(11.1)practicedependonfactorssuchaswhetherornotthe appliesforffdefinedasatotalstress,andcandareproblemisoneofloadingorunloading,whetherornotreferredtoastotalstressCopyrightedparameters.Equation(11.2)short-termMaterialorlong-termstabilityisofinterest,and appliesforffdefinedasaneffectivestress,andcandstressorientations. areeffectivestressparameters.Astheshearresis-Emphasisinthischapterisonthefundamentalfac-tanceofsoiloriginatesmainlyfromactionsatinter-torscontrollingthestrengthandstress–deformationparticlecontacts,thesecondequationisthemorebehaviorofsoils.Followingareviewofthegeneralfundamental.characteristicsofstrengthanddeformation,somere-369Copyright©2005JohnWiley&SonsRetrievedfrom:www.knovel.com37011STRENGTHANDDEFORMATIONBEHAVIOR