Shear Strength Development with Burial in Eel River Margin Slope Sediments |
| |
Authors: | Jacques Locat Homa Lee Robert Kayen Ken Israel Marie-Claude Savoie Éric Boulanger |
| |
Institution: | 1. Pusan National University , South Koreasuneelm_75@hotmail.com;3. Pusan National University , South Korea |
| |
Abstract: | As part of the STRATAFORM project, a series of cores were obtained from the Eel River Margin area of Eureka, California. The geotechnical analysis of intact specimens and of reconstituted samples provides some insight on the development of shear strength with burial. The results show the effect of bioturbation in the early part of the lifetime of a sediment. SEDCON tests were used to proposed various relationships which help predict the changes in density, liquidity index, and strength as a function of depth. These relationships are found useful from near the water sediment-interface down to a depth of at least 400 m in the sediment column. |
| |
Keywords: | compression index consolidation creep marine soft clay recompression index secondary compression index |
|