Effect of specimen shape on creep response of a frozen sand |
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| Authors: | B Ladanyi J Arteau |
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| Institution: | aCentre d'ingénierie nordique, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada) |
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| Abstract: | The stress—strain and strength behavior of frozen soils is most often studied in a conventional uniaxial or triaxial compression test. However, available experimental evidence shows that the results obtained in such a test may be considerably affected by the test conditions, i.e., by the specimen shape and the method of axial load transfer to the specimen ends, both of which affect the uniformity of stress and strain distribution in the sample. The methods proposed for solving the problem of load transfer to the specimen ends differ considerably for brittle and ductile materials, respectively. Since a frozen soil may behave either as a brittle or as a ductile material, depending on strain rate, temperature and confining pressure, it is considered that the load transfer method selected should correspond to the expected sample behavior. In this paper, the results of a series of compression and creep tests are presented, in which the effects of specimen shape and end conditions on the behavior of a frozen sand were systematically investigated and compared. a frozen sand were systematically investigated and compared. |
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