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Influence of intermediate principal stress on the strength and deformation behavior of artificial frozen sand

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In order to study the influence of the intermediate principal stress coefficient and confining pressure on the strength and deformation of frozen sand, a true triaxial instrument was used to conduct equal-proportion increment loading tests under three-dimensional (3D) stress. Test results indicate that, under a 3D equal-proportion incremental loading stress path, the stress–strain curves of artificial frozen sand exhibit a trend of strain hardening, showing a strength increase upon increasing the intermediate principal stress coefficient and confining pressure. As the intermediate principal stress coefficient increases from 0 to 1, the intermediate principal stress direction changes from expansion to compression, while expansions occur in all minor principal strain directions, and the expansion continuously increases. When the intermediate principal stress coefficient is 0.25, the samples are in a plane strain state. As the intermediate principal stress coefficient increases, the cohesion of artificial frozen sand first decreases and then increases, while the internal friction angle continues to increase, and the failure stress ratio gradually decreases. The failure line of artificial frozen sand increases linearly under symmetrical stress with a low confining pressure. Multiple strength criteria for geotechnical materials are compared in the π-plane, and a shape function for artificial frozen sand is proposed. In combination with the yield functions for the meridian plane and the π-plane, a 3D strength criterion for artificial frozen sand under low confining pressure is proposed, and the shapes in the principal stress space and π-plane are obtained.

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This research was supported by the Key Laboratory Open Subject Fund of the Fujian University of Underground Engineering (KF-T18014), the Outstanding Young Scientific Research Talents Cultivation Program of the Fujian University (GY-Z17070), the Research Development Fund of the Fujian Institute of Engineering (GY-Z17158), the Fujian Provincial Natural Science Foundation Projects (2017Y4001), and the projects of the Fuzhou Science and Technology Bureau (2017-G-59, 2018-G-77).

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    Junhao Chen & Zhaoming Yao

  2. School of Civil Engineering, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, 350118, China

    Junhao Chen & Lexiao Wang

  3. School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, 232001, China

    Shuang Liu & Zhaoming Yao

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Chen, J., Wang, L., Liu, S. et al. Influence of intermediate principal stress on the strength and deformation behavior of artificial frozen sand. Arab J Geosci 14, 1990 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-08327-1

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