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Chapter<br />

5 INTERPRETATION OF SOIL PROPERTIES<br />

Figure 5.13 Trends for Compression <strong>and</strong><br />

Swelling Indices in Terms of Plasticity<br />

Index<br />

In clays <strong>and</strong> silts, the profile of preconsolidation stress can be evaluated via in-situ test data. a<br />

relationship between p ', plasticity<br />

index (PI) <strong>and</strong> the (raw) measured vane strength (s uv ) is given in<br />

Fig. 5.14. This permits immediatee assessment<br />

of the degree of over-consolidation<br />

of natural soil<br />

deposits.<br />

Figure<br />

5.14 Ratio Of Measured Vane Strength<br />

To Preconsolidation Stress (Suv/P') Vs. Plasticity<br />

Index (Ip) (After Leroueil And Jamiolkowski. 1991)<br />

For the electric cone penetrometer, Fig. 5.15 shows a relationship for σ p ' in terms of net cone tip<br />

resistance (q T - σ vo ‘ ) for intact clay<br />

deposits. Fissured clays are seen to lie above this<br />

trend. For the<br />

piezocone, σ p ' can be evaluated from excess porewater pressures (u 1 - u o o), as seen in Fig. 5.16.<br />

March 2009<br />

5-15

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