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Experimental Study on the Behavior of a Plasticine Material

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Bifurcation and Degradation of Geomaterials in the New Millennium (IWBDG 2014)

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This paper presents an experimental study, which includes the oedometer test and isotropic creep test, on the compressibility and the creep effect of the plasticine materials. The Compression Index (Ccε), Rebounding Index (Crε) and creep coefficient (C αε ) are obtained from the test results. However, it can be observed that there is almost no loop in unloading-reloading stages of stress-strain relationship, which is different from most soil test results. By means of the Scanning Electron Microscope, it could be found that the compression of the plasticine is mainly due to the porosity decrease and the structure flocculence, which is nonrecoverable.

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Acknowledgments

The work in this paper is supported by a research grant (project No. 51278442) from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), PolyU Shenzhen Research Institute, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China.

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Wei-Qiang Feng & Jian-Hua Yin

  2. College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China

    Fei Tong

  3. Department of Institutive of Textile and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Xiao-Ming Tao

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Feng, WQ., Tong, F., Tao, XM., Yin, JH. (2015). Experimental Study on the Behavior of a Plasticine Material. In: Chau, KT., Zhao, J. (eds) Bifurcation and Degradation of Geomaterials in the New Millennium. IWBDG 2014. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13506-9_42

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