Sand grain crushing and interface shearing during displacement pile installation in sand

Geotechnique

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 469-482

  Yang, Z X ^a,b   Jardine, R J ^b   Zhu, B T ^b,c   Foray, P ^b,c   Tsuha, C H C ^d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Arup Geotechnics   (Australia)

^d LABORATOIRE SOLS SOLIDES STRUCTURES   (France)

Author keywords

Fabric structure of soils; Model tests; Particle crushing crushability; Piles; Sands; Strain localisation; Time dependence

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT PILE; INTERFACE SHEARING; MODEL TESTS; PARALLEL INTERFACES; PARTICLE CRUSHING; PARTICLE CRUSHING/CRUSHABILITY; PARTICULATE PROCESS; SAND GRAINS; SHEAR BANDING; STRAIN LOCALISATION; TIME DEPENDENCE;

CRUSHING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; PILES; SOILS;

SAND;

CRUSHING; INSTALLATION; MODEL TEST; PILE; SAND; SHEAR TEST; STRAIN; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77953502780     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: 17517656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.2010.60.6.469     Document Type: Article

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