SEDL / STP / STP361-EB / STP30009S

High-Pressure Triaxial Tests on a Compacted Sand and an Undisturbed Silt

Hirschfeld, RC
Assistant professor and research assistant, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Poulos, SJ
Assistant professor and research assistant, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Pages: 11    Published: Jan 1964

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Abstract

Triaxial S tests were performed on undisturbed Cannonsville silt and on a compacted sand at confining pressures ranging from 1 to 40 kg/cm. It was found that both soils exhibited a net increase in volume during shear at low confining pressures but exhibited a net decrease in volume during shear at high confining pressures.