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Effects of cyclic loading on undrained strength and compressibility of clay.

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In this paper, the effects of undrained cyclic loading on clay behavior were investigated using triaxial tests, and the authors presented concepts and methods for predicting both behaviours during and after cyclic loadings.
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This article is published in Soils and Foundations.The article was published on 1992-03-15 and is currently open access. It has received 123 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pore water pressure.

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Undrained deformation behavior of saturated soft clay under long-term cyclic loading

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of monotonic triaxial tests and long-term cyclic (50,000 cycles) TRIAXial tests have been carried out to investigate the undrained deformation behavior of undisturbed soft clay from Wenzhou, China.
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Undrained behavior of natural marine clay under cyclic loading

TL;DR: In this article, two kinds of stress-controlled cyclic triaxial tests were conducted on natural K 0-consolidated Wenzhou clay, and the accumulative behavior was studied; based on the results, a suitable cyclic failure criterion was suggested for natural clays.
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Stiffness degradation of natural fine grained soils during cyclic loading

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of plasticity index and changes in confining pressures based on cyclic triaxial tests were investigated for fine-grained soils under a broad range of strains, and the results provided useful guidelines for preliminary estimation of dynamic shear modulus and damping ratio values for fine grained soils based on laboratory tests.
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Undrained Cyclic Shear Behaviour of Normally Consolidated Clay Subjected to Initial Static Shear Stress

TL;DR: In this article, a series of undrained cyclic triaxial compression tests has been performed on a high plasticity marine clay and a semi-empirical model is proposed for evaluating the development of pore pressure and residual shear strain during cyclic loading.
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Experimental identification of plastic shakedown behavior of saturated clay subjected to traffic loading with principal stress rotation

TL;DR: In this article, a series of cyclic heart-shaped and cyclic triaxial undrained tests were performed on Shanghai clay through simultaneously varying the torsional shear stress and the normal stresses.
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Cyclic and Static Laboratory Tests on Drammen Clay

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive research project on laboratory testing of cyclic behavior of plastic clay is presented, which consists of 129 triaxial and 103 simple shear cyclic and static tests on plastic Drammen clay.
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The effective stress response of a saturated clay soil to repeated loading

TL;DR: The results of a series of tests designed to examine the behavior of saturated clay soil under repeated loading are reported in this paper, under conditions of axial symmetry, were used and the r...
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Cyclic Stress-Strain History and Shear Characteristics of Clay

TL;DR: In this paper, an equation of the residual excess pore pressure, represented as a function of both the maximum cyclic shear strain and the overconsolidation ratio, is deduced.
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Cyclic strength and deformation of normally consolidated clay

TL;DR: In this article, a series of stress-controlled repeated triaxial compression tests are carried out on a remolded soft clay and cyclic strength and deformation behavior are analyzed in terms of both effective and total stresses and discussions are made particularly on the influence of stress induced anisotropy.
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Study on the settlement of saturated clay layer induced by cyclic shear

TL;DR: In this paper, two-way strain controlled cyclic simple shear tests under the undrained condition are carried out for normally consolidated and overconsolidated Kaolinite clay.
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