Degree of compaction vs. shear strength of cohesive soils

[jdonville]

All,

Anyone have any good references to texts or papers discussing the relationship between compactive effort, degree of compaction and undrained shear strength/unconfined compressive strength of cohesive soils?

I'm aware that these strength factors may change depending on the confining pressure for unsaturated soils.

Thanks in advance,

Jeff


Jeffrey T. Donville, PE
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[fndn]

This paper has some of your items:

http://www.soilvision.com/subdomain...nce Papers/1999/08UnconfinedShearStrength.pdf

 

[BigH]

Jeff - if you got that disk I sent you in January (hope you got it)- check out the ORN (British overseas research notes) - I think it would be ORN-3 - if I remember correctly, they have a chart of UU or CBR (which can be correlated to UU) for various levels of saturation and compaction.