Hydro-mechanical coupling experiments on suffusion in sandy gravel foundations containing a partially penetrating cut-off wall

Yu-long Luo (), Qiang Wu, Mei-li Zhan, Jin-chang Sheng and Yuan Wang

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2013, vol. 67, issue 2, 659-674

Abstract: The influence of the stress state on the evolution of suffusion failure is often neglected in the design of sandy gravel foundations containing a partially penetrating cut-off wall. A series of hydro-mechanical coupling experiments on such structures was carried out to investigate the influence using a newly designed apparatus. The results indicate that: (1) The stress state has a significant influence on the evolution of suffusion, which increases the critical suffusion hydraulic gradient dramatically. (2) The critical suffusion hydraulic gradient is linearly related to the confining pressure and to the penetration ratio, and a simple interpolation function for the critical hydraulic gradient was fitted based on the experimental results. (3) The eroded mass in the development of suffusion is nonuniform and intermittent. The evolution of suffusion is a complicated and iterative process involving fine particle migration, pores being clogged, flushing out of the clogged pores, and fine particle remigration. (4) Flow along the interface of sandy gravel and cut-off wall conforms to the piecewise-linear Darcy flow rule. The results will enhance the understanding of the influence of the stress state on the suffusion failure in sandy gravel foundations containing partially penetrating cut-off walls. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

Keywords: Suffusion failure; Hydro-mechanical; Sandy gravel; Partially penetrating cut-off wall; Critical suffusion hydraulic gradient (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s11069-013-0596-z (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:nathaz:v:67:y:2013:i:2:p:659-674

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/11069

DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0596-z

Access Statistics for this article

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards is currently edited by Thomas Glade, Tad S. Murty and Vladimír Schenk

More articles in Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards from Springer, International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().