Terzaghi had established soil mechanics as an academic scholarship due to the discovery of the principal of effective stress for saturated soils when he considered the consolidation theory of saturated clay. The reaso...Terzaghi had established soil mechanics as an academic scholarship due to the discovery of the principal of effective stress for saturated soils when he considered the consolidation theory of saturated clay. The reason of the existence of the effective stress is that soil particles and water are composited by incompressible solid and liquid. Although air is very compressible fluid, the principle of effective stress is also used in unsaturated soils in the resent developed numerical analyses. Schrefler＇s equation is most frequently used, but the effective stress is not verified by the experimental results. In this study, the equations for unsaturated soils proposed by Schrefler, Aitchison, Khalili and Khabbaz and Kohgo are compared with using the results of suction controlled consolidometer tests. As a result, the effective stress for unsaturated soils calculated by Schrefler＇s equation was average of them.展开更多
文摘Terzaghi had established soil mechanics as an academic scholarship due to the discovery of the principal of effective stress for saturated soils when he considered the consolidation theory of saturated clay. The reason of the existence of the effective stress is that soil particles and water are composited by incompressible solid and liquid. Although air is very compressible fluid, the principle of effective stress is also used in unsaturated soils in the resent developed numerical analyses. Schrefler＇s equation is most frequently used, but the effective stress is not verified by the experimental results. In this study, the equations for unsaturated soils proposed by Schrefler, Aitchison, Khalili and Khabbaz and Kohgo are compared with using the results of suction controlled consolidometer tests. As a result, the effective stress for unsaturated soils calculated by Schrefler＇s equation was average of them.
