In addition to the conventional laboratory tests of input materials and construction mixtures, technically correct design pavement structure involves more frequent functional mixtures. Our study summarizes findings from a long-term monitoring on selected road sections with lower traffic intensity. The research involved comparison resilient moduli as parameter unbound base layers’ granular (UGMs...

A new failure criterion was presented to predict the ultimate strength of shale under the triaxial and polyaxial state of stress. A database containing 93 datasets was obtained from the results of the uniaxial, triaxial, polyaxial compressive tests, an indirect tensile test was collected from reliable references, and this test was carried out on the shale samples taken from the southwestern oil...

In road base layers, geogrids assume the reinforcement or stabilization function where good interaction between geogrid and unbound material is important. The cyclic triaxial test can be used for analysing material. paper includes an overview of research primarily assessing influence parameters such as stiffness, geometry aperture size, position number on with layer to determine contribution ap...

The triaxial test is probably the most important fundamental laboratory test for geotechnical engineers. The objective of the study presented here was to gain insight into the micro-scale interactions experienced by particles during a triaxial test using the distinct element method (DEM). To achieve this objective, a novel DEM modelling environment to simulate triaxial tests on ideal granular m...

A typical flexible pavement structure consists of the surface, base, sub-base and subgrade soil. The loading traffic is transferred from the top layer with higher stiffness to the layer below with less stiffness. Under normal traffic loading, the behaviour of flexible pavement is very complex and can be predicted by using the repeated load triaxial test equipment in the laboratory. However, the...

inspecting the behavior of the rockfill materials is of significant importance in analysis of rockfill dams. since the dimensions of grains in such materials are greater than the conventional sizes suitable for soil mechanics tests, it is necessary to experimentally study them in specific large-scale apparatuses. in this research, the behavior of rockfill materials in two large rockfill dams co...

A variety of clay specimens (Kaolin, Belfast Upper Boulder Clay and Belfast Sleech) were subjected to British Standards Triaxial Permeability Tests and Accelerated Permeability Tests in order to examine how the permeability predicted (under uniform effective stresses and conditions) varied depending on the testing method adopted. The specimens were then freeze-dried to preserve their post-test ...