| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L73333/01 |
| Title: |
ASPECTS OF THE GEOTECHNICAL BEHAVIOUR OF SEDIMENTED COHESIVE SOILS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Sills, Professor G |
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Engineering Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Oxford |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 July 1998 |
Ends: |
30 June 2001 |
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87,629
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An understanding of the behaviour of newly sedimented soil is important because of its direct applications in areas such as siltation, dredging, storage of waste slurries and land reclamation. However, it is perhaps even more important in the insight that it can provide into the behaviour of soils in general, given that the deposition conditions can have a significant effect on the subsequent soil behaviour. Burland has developed a conceptual framework based on a distinction between instrinsic properties, associated with the remoulded condition, and the condition or properties which are due to the structure, the fabric and the stress history, creep and thixotropy can have significant effects at very low effective stress levels, and the aim of the proposed research is to determine how these influences depend on the specific sedimentation conditions and how they survive the transition to a higher effective stress range.
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