Pore Pressure Response Following Undrained uCPT Sounding in a Dilating Soil

The generation and dissipation of pore fluid pressures following standard piezocone sounding (uCPT) sounding in silty sands are observed to exhibit many of the characteristics of undrained penetration in dilatant materials; steady excess pore pressures may be subhydrostatic, or may become subhydrostatic during dissipation, and are slow to decay. Enigmatic pore pressure dissipation histories which transit from sub- to supra- and again to subhydrostatic before equilibrating at hydrostatic are consistent with a response where undrained pressures are maximally negative remote from the penetrometer tip. This surprising distribution of induced pore fluid pressures is accommodated in cavity expansion models for a dilating soil. A Mohr-Coulomb constitutive model is established for undrained loading of a soil with pore pressure response defined by Skempton pore pressure parameters. Defined in terms of effective stresses, this allows undrained stresses and pore pressures to be determined following cavity expansion ...

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