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Title: Three-dimensional constitutive modeling of a granular mine tailings material

Thesis/Dissertation ·
OSTI ID:6029759

A three-dimensional soil testing system was developed to provide a convenient and accurate testing environment and to provide the capability of exploring the stress-strain-strength behavior of a fine-grained coal mine tailings material (or other types of soil) along general three-dimensional stress paths. This testing system was used to generate stress-strain-strength information for the fine coal refuse along several stress paths, i.e., Conventional Triaxial Compression (CTC), Reduced Triaxial Extension (RTE), Hydrostatic Compression (HC), and Constant Pressure (CP) stress paths. In all, 24 cubical tests were performed. In order to compare the results obtained from this cubical device to those obtained from conventional devices, 9 CTC tests were performed with conventional devices. The differences between the cubical system and conventional devices were evaluated. It was found that the sample size and the condition of end lubrication may be the two most important factors that need to be considered while comparing the cubical results to their conventional counterparts. A constitutive model was derived within the general framework of the Bounding Surface Plasticity theories. This model was found to be capable of predicting the stress-strain-strength behavior of the fine coal refuse along the CTC, RTE, and HC stress paths.

Research Organization:
West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV (USA)
OSTI ID:
6029759
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Thesis (Ph.D)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English