A Double Cell Triaxial System for continuous measurement of volume changes of an unsaturated or saturated soil specimen in triaxial testing

Geotechnical Testing Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 353-358

  Yin, Jian Hua ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Compression; Saturated; Soil; Triaxial; Unsaturated; Volume

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLAY; COMPRESSION TESTING; CONSOLIDATION; COPPER; DILATOMETERS; MATERIALS TESTING APPARATUS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); STRAIN; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

DOUBLE CELL TRIAXIAL SYSTEM; SATURATED SOIL; SOLID COPPER SPECIMEN; TRIAXIAL TESTING; UNSATURATED SOIL; VOLUME CHANGES; WATER FLUSHING;

SOIL TESTING;

EID: 4043102484     PISSN: 01496115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. BS 1377, 1990, Methods of Test for Soils for Civil Engineering Purposes, British Standards Institute, London, 1990.
2. Bishop, A. W. and Donald, I. B., 1961, "The Experimental Study of Partly Saturated Soils in the Triaxial Apparatus," Proceedings, Fifth International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Paris, Vol.1, pp.13-21.
3. Wheeler, S. J., 1988, "The Undrained Shear Strength of Soils Containing Large Gas Bubbles," Geotechnique, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 399-413.
4. Yin, Z. Z., Ed., 1998, Settlement and Consolidation of Soil Mass, China Electric Publication House (in Chinese).