- Title
- Response of different osmotic membranes and calibration of a coupled model capturing the temperature effect for the osmotic method
- Creator
- Yuan, Shengyang; Liu, Xianfeng; Buzzi, Olivier
- Relation
- 3rd European Conference on Unsaturated Soils (E-UNSAT 2016). E3S Web of Conferences, Volume 9 (Paris, France 12-14 September, 2016)
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160910010
- Publisher
- EDP Sciences
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Reliable suction control is of paramount importance for experimental unsaturated soil mechanics. The osmotic method, based on polyethylene glycol (PEG) and semi-permeable membranes, is one of the possible methods to control suction. Although this method is quite simple to implement, reliable results can only be obtained with adequate calibration curves linking suction and PEG concentration, and a good understanding of the factors influencing the method. Several studies have investigated different aspects of this method, including the osmotic potential generated by given PEG concentrations, but the effect of temperature is not yet fully captured. This paper presents the results of a comprehensive study of the osmotic method looking at the long-term response of three different types of membranes, the effect of temperature, PEG molecular weight (MW) and the combination of different MW cut off (MWCO) on the calibration curves. Finally the data were used to calibrate a model capturing the temperature effect, in a coupled manner, in order to provide a robust calibration.
- Subject
- osmotic membranes; suction control; soil mechanics; polyethylene glycol (PEG)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1345018
- Identifier
- uon:29547
- Rights
- © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2016. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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