- Title
- Modifications in soil fabric due to tube sampling in soft clay
- Creator
- Pineda, Jubert A.; Liu, Xianfeng; Kelly, Richard; Suwal, Laxmi; Sloan, Scott
- Relation
- 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ICSMGE). Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Seoul, Korea 17-22 September, 2017) p. 3027-3030
- Publisher
- International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ICSMGE)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- This paper analyses the effects of tube sampling in soft clay with particular emphasis on the modifications that occur in the clay fabric for tube specimens retrieved using open samplers (Shelby) as well as a fixed-piston sampler relative to a Sherbrooke block sampler. Tube specimens of an estuarine soft clay are analysed in this study. Mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) tests are carried out to infer the pore size density function (PSD) of specimens trimmed at different locations along the tube and these are compared against those performed on undisturbed clay, obtained from Sherbrooke specimens, to estimate variations in the natural soil fabric due to tube sampling.
- Subject
- tube sampling; fabric; soft clay; microstructure; sample disturbance; mercury intrusion porosimetry
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1393012
- Identifier
- uon:33486
- Language
- eng
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