SEDL / STP / STP361-EB / STP29986S

Creep Studies on Saturated Clays

Mitchell, JK
Associate professor of civil engineering and associate research engineer, and graduate research engineer, Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,

Campanella, RG
Associate professor of civil engineering and associate research engineer, and graduate research engineer, Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,

Pages: 14    Published: Jan 1964

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Abstract

An hypothesis, based on rate-process theory, which relates effective stresses, deviator stress, soil structure, temperature, and frictional and cohesive soil properties with creep rate, is summarized briefly. This hypothesis is tested by a specially designed triaxial compression apparatus which permits creep testing of clays under a range of controllable temperatures and pressures as well as the measurement of pore water pressures. This apparatus also permits rapid temperature change during a test.