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Study on the energy-based pore pressure model of coarse-grained soils by eliminating membrane compliance

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The penetration of a membrane in undrained triaxial tests varies with the effective confining pressure, and for coarse-grained soils, deeper penetration leads to the phenomenon of local “drainage” during the liquefaction process, resulting in overly conservative results. In this paper, instrument compensation technology is used to replenish water to the specimen in real time, to solve the influence of membrane compliance in the undrained process and to realize a “true undrained test.” Through compensated and uncompensated tests under different confining pressures, relative densities and consolidation ratios, combined with the principles of dissipated energy and pore pressure increments, the correction coefficient of the coarse-grained soil membrane during the liquefaction process is studied. The results show that the correction coefficient is not a fixed value but changes with the effective confining pressure in real time. In the early stage of the liquefaction test, that is, when the effective confining pressure is high, the correction coefficient can be treated as a constant, but with the continuous increase in pore pressure, the correction coefficient decreases. The normalization effect under different working conditions is more consistent. Finally, combined with the existing pore pressure increment model, a membrane correction coefficient that changes in real time with the effective confining pressure is introduced. Compared with the existing theory, this correction method has a more accurate fitting effect in the later stage of the liquefaction test. The research results provide a good reference for the influence of coarse-grained soil membrane compliance in the liquefaction process.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 52192674, U1965206, U2240211).

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Zhang, J., Ji, X., Zou, D. et al. Study on the energy-based pore pressure model of coarse-grained soils by eliminating membrane compliance. Acta Geotech. 18, 6505–6528 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-023-02059-0

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