Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 29 views

    Drain and Undrained Shear Stress in Soil Mechanic Retaining Structure

    Uploaded by

    Hamzah Al-Hashemi
    The document discusses the use of drained and undrained shear strength analyses for retaining structures supporting fine-grained soils. It states that a total stress analysis using undrained shear strength should only be used for temporary works, as undrained shear strength depends on factors like initial void ratio and confining pressure. For retaining structures, the analysis should use both total and effective stress analyses to account for pore water pressures in fine-grained soils.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Drain and Undrained Shear Stress in Soil Mechanic Retaining Structure

    Uploaded by

    Hamzah Al-Hashemi
    29 views3 pages
    The document discusses the use of drained and undrained shear strength analyses for retaining structures supporting fine-grained soils. It states that a total stress analysis using undrained shear strength should only be used for temporary works, as undrained shear strength depends on factors like initial void ratio and confining pressure. For retaining structures, the analysis should use both total and effective stress analyses to account for pore water pressures in fine-grained soils.

    Original Title

    1607798501442

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document discusses the use of drained and undrained shear strength analyses for retaining structures supporting fine-grained soils. It states that a total stress analysis using undrained shear strength should only be used for temporary works, as undrained shear strength depends on factors like initial void ratio and confining pressure. For retaining structures, the analysis should use both total and effective stress analyses to account for pore water pressures in fine-grained soils.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    29 views3 pages

    Drain and Undrained Shear Stress in Soil Mechanic Retaining Structure

    Uploaded by

    Hamzah Al-Hashemi
    The document discusses the use of drained and undrained shear strength analyses for retaining structures supporting fine-grained soils. It states that a total stress analysis using undrained shear strength should only be used for temporary works, as undrained shear strength depends on factors like initial void ratio and confining pressure. For retaining structures, the analysis should use both total and effective stress analyses to account for pore water pressures in fine-grained soils.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 3

    Dec 2020 Drain and Undrained

    Shear Stress in Soil


    Mechanic Retaining
    Structure

    By: Nabaz Nooralddin Othman


    BSC. IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
    The Question:
    “The total stress analysis should only be used in temporary works. But even for these
    works, you should be cautious in relying on the undrained shear strength. Recall that
    the undrained shear strength is not a fundamental soil parameter. It depends on the
    initial void ratio or confining pressure. A total stress analysis should be used in
    conjunction with an effective stress analysis for retaining structures supporting fine-
    grained soils”.
    My Answer:
    Retaining structure is critical and should be design with proper detailing accuracy
    in soil and material structure.
    According to father of soil Terzaghi, ‘Soil mechanics is the application of the laws
    of mechanics and hydraulics to engineering problems dealing with sediments and
    other unconsolidated accumulations of solid particles produced by the mechanical
    and chemical disintegration of rock, regardless of whether or not they contain an
    admixture of organic constituents’.
    Material like soil have two main condition of design, drained and undrained shear
    strength. For case of drained water can easily drained from soil and escaped, while
    for undrained condition water inside soil Skelton cannot easily escape, this
    phenomenon is due to rate of loading which is much rapid than drained and other
    factor can influence that rate such as type of soil (i.e. gravel, sand, clay…),
    geological formation, and rate of loading.
    In other word we could say that in shear strength of soil we have two type of
    conditions: a) short term condition- b) long term condition. A very basic soil
    engineering is effective stress which was proposed by Terzaghi (1936) as
    𝜎 ′ = 𝜎 − 𝑢 where 𝜎 is total stress and 𝑢 is pore water pressure.
    When we design on short term condition we cannot estimate amount of pore water
    pressure that generated by existing soil because of its sudden load, and by not
    escaping water pressure in short time it become undrained condition, this type of
    condition in soil had more factor of safety in designing structure because of
    unknown of 𝑢 and assuming as zero. It is also needed less time to predict effective
    stress and cost-less. That is why in undrained condition we can rely on total stress
    as mentioned before the basic Terzaghi equation become 𝜎 ′ = 𝜎 because pore
    water pressure is no longer available, this case is also available for coarse grain soil
    such as sand and gravel.
    For long term condition we rely on effective stress 𝜎 ′ because water pressure is
    known and can predict accurately, but its costly effect and needed time to drain all
    that water pressure under load and this condition is occur mainly in fine grained
    soil like clay and silt.
    As undrained shear strength is not a fundamental soil parameter it depends on
    voids that water can easily drain or not, varying over depth as a function of in-situ
    confining stress at a given depth so larger confining stress reduces void ratio over
    the historical time, this is why there are several correlations available for
    determination of undrained shear strength from initial void ratio, water
    content/plasticity index, and historical effective confining pressure.
    As a result, it is unwise-able to design geotechnical structures and analysis under
    short-term undrained condition in tern of total stress rather than effective-stress,
    one reason is initial pore water pressure generated by loading of construction and
    unloading process in fine grained soil i.e. clay is difficult to predict.

    You might also like