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Viscous Behaviour of Soft Clay and Inducing Factors

Authors: Thu Minh Le, Behzad Fatahi, Hadi Khabbaz

Published in: Geotechnical and Geological Engineering | Issue 5/2012

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As a result of the scarcity of land for construction, a number of projects to construct man-made islands or to expand lands over soft grounds keeps increasing. Creep behaviour of soft ground has been considered as a challenging issue for engineers and researchers for many years. A number of studies have focused on the method to predict the creep deformation of the ground under a construction site. However, there is no unified theory to clearly explain the mechanism of soil creep deformation of soils. Results of the critical review in this paper indicate that the causes of soil creep can be categorised into five main groups, namely (a) the breakdown of the inter-particle bonds, (b) sliding between the soil particles, (c) water flow from micro-pores to macro-pores (d) the deformation due to the structural viscosity and (e) the deformation due to the jumping of bonds. This paper presents these mechanisms in details with an effort to recommend an enhanced explanation for the creep compression mechanisms of clays.

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Title: Viscous Behaviour of Soft Clay and Inducing Factors
Authors: Thu Minh Le
Behzad Fatahi
Hadi Khabbaz
Publication date: 01-10-2012
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Geotechnical and Geological Engineering / Issue 5/2012
Print ISSN: 0960-3182
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1529
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-012-9535-0

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