The determination of shear strength characteristics gravelly soils is difficult through the use conventional small scale, triaxial or simple testing devices in laboratory due to membrane compliance and boundary effects; inconsistent penetration resistances measured as part standard cone field. These limitations require available empirical semi-empirical relationships execution large scale field...

The propagation of elastic waves in a box under direct shear, filled with glass beads and being sheared at constant rates, is studied experimentally and theoretically. The respective velocities are shown to be essentially unchanged from that in a static granular system under the same pressure and shear stress but without a shear band. Influence of shear band on sound behaviors are also briefly ...

Accurate mechanical property data obtained at large shear deformations and high frequencies are a fundamental component of realistic numerical simulations of soft tissue injury. Although many commercial systems exist for testing shear properties of viscoelastic materials with properties similar to soft biological tissue, none are capable of determining properties at high loading rates necessary...

In order to design civil structures that are supported by soils, the shear strength parameters of soils are required. Due to the large particle size of coarse-grained soils, large direct shear tests should be performed. In this study, large direct shear tests on three types of coarse grained soils (4.5 mm, 7.9 mm, and 15.9 mm) were performed to evaluate the effects of particle size on the shear...

Direct determination of formation shear wave travel time is impossible in "slow" formations where the shear wave velocity is lower than the borehole fluid (mud) velocity. However, the Stoneley waves in these formations are very sensitive to changes in formation shear wave properties and can be used to indirectly determine the formation shear velocity, In addition, the P wave packet is highly de...

following recent works of several authors like huilgol, bhattacharya etd. and javadpour et al., this paper is to contribute further to the literature of axial flow in a rotational coaxial rheometer. we consider axial flow of herschel bulkley mode1 between two concentric cylinders with the inner one rotating, while the outer cylinder is held stationary. an attempt has been made to direct the ana...

Abstract The paper deals with an analysis of the shear strength behaviour coarse-grained materials using large-sized direct apparatus. curve compacted material allows for determining three typical strengths, i.e. a maximum density sample tested (shear at point A), peak P), and critical achieved large horizontal movement C). Professional laboratories usually apply two different methods. first me...