TY - GEN
T1 - Influence of fissure inclination and confining pressure on the local behaviour of natural clays
AU - Tudisco, Erika
AU - Vitone, Claudia
AU - Mondello, Cristina
AU - Viggiani, Gioacchino
AU - Hall, Stephen A.
AU - Cotecchia, Federica
AU - Castellano, Alessandra
AU - Massaro, Francesco
PY - 2019/6/25
Y1 - 2019/6/25
N2 - In this experimental study the influence of fissuring orientation and confinement pressure on the mechanical behaviour of natural clays is investigated. The tested material, the scaly clay from Santa Croce di Magliano (south of Italy), is characterised by an intense network of pre-existing fissures of single orientation. Several plane strain compression tests have been conducted, under different confinement pressures (i.e., from 50 to 600 kPa), on specimens having fissures with vertical, medium and horizontal inclination. Digital Image Correlation has been used to follow the deformation processes of the specimens throughout the tests by measuring incremental shear and volumetric strain maps. The results showed a strong coupling between the total confinement and the fissure inclination, that is controlling both the onset and the development of the patterns of the localisation processes. The new results have been compared with previous ones carried out on the same material without confinement. The comparison shed light on the role of total confinement that becomes particularly relevant from certain levels of pressures and fissuring inclination.
AB - In this experimental study the influence of fissuring orientation and confinement pressure on the mechanical behaviour of natural clays is investigated. The tested material, the scaly clay from Santa Croce di Magliano (south of Italy), is characterised by an intense network of pre-existing fissures of single orientation. Several plane strain compression tests have been conducted, under different confinement pressures (i.e., from 50 to 600 kPa), on specimens having fissures with vertical, medium and horizontal inclination. Digital Image Correlation has been used to follow the deformation processes of the specimens throughout the tests by measuring incremental shear and volumetric strain maps. The results showed a strong coupling between the total confinement and the fissure inclination, that is controlling both the onset and the development of the patterns of the localisation processes. The new results have been compared with previous ones carried out on the same material without confinement. The comparison shed light on the role of total confinement that becomes particularly relevant from certain levels of pressures and fissuring inclination.
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U2 - 10.1051/e3sconf/20199203004
DO - 10.1051/e3sconf/20199203004
M3 - Paper in conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85069683791
VL - 92
T3 - E3S Web of Conferences
BT - 7th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, IS-Glasgow 2019
A2 - Ibraim, Erdin
A2 - Tarantino, Alessandro
PB - EDP Sciences
T2 - 7th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, IS-Glasgow 2019
Y2 - 26 June 2019 through 28 June 2019
ER -