Prediction of permanent deformation for subgrade soils under traffic loading in Southern China
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PAVEMENT ENGINEERING(2022)
Abstract
The cumulative permanent strain of subgrade soils plays an important role in the pavement structure design and long-term pavement performance maintenance. In Southern China, the hot and humid climate increases the risk of becoming a saturated condition for subgrade soils. The saturated subgrade soils will generate significant cumulative permanent strain under long-term cyclic loading compared with unsaturated soils. This study investigated the impact of the moisture content, number of cyclic loading, deviatoric stress and confining pressure on the evolution of the cumulative permanent strain for subgrade soils by using long-term cyclic (10,000 cycles) triaxial tests. The test results indicated that the cumulative axial permanent strain increase with the increasing moisture content, as well as the increasing number of cyclic loading and deviatoric stress but decreases with the increasing confining pressure. In order to predict the permanent deformation of subgrade soils in Southern China, a new model for predicting the permanent deformation of subgrade soil, which contains number of cyclic loading, initial bulk stress, octahedral shear stress and saturation, was proposed and validated.
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Key words
Permanent strain,subgrade soil,prediction,cyclic triaxial tests,hot and humid area
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