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  title info:
    title: Determination of soil properties for sandy soils and road base at Riverside Campus using laboratory testing and numerical simulation
  name:
    name part: Saez Barrios, Deeyvid O.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Briaud, J.-L
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: This study evaluated the soil properties of clean sand, a silty sand, and a road base that are extensively used as a backfill for full-scale testing at Riverside Campus at Texas A&M University. The three soils were collected at the Riverside Campus and the testing schedule included grain size analysis, hydrometer test, specific gravity, maximum dry density, Atterberg limit, stiffness, direct shear test, triaxial test, and a simple procedure to estimate the maximum and minimum void ratio of the clean sand. Relation between strength/deformation, vertical displacement/shear displacement, and physical properties were evaluated to estimate the frictional resistance and angle of dilation of the clean sand and the silty sand. Numerical simulations of the Direct Shear Test (DST) were conducted on the clean sand using Finite Element Model in the computer program LS-DYNA. The simulations were intended to reproduce the Direct Shear Test (DST) to estimate the frictional resistance and dilatancy effects of the clean sand under different compressive stresses. Field tests were also conducted on the clean sand and the road base. These tests included the in-situ density determination, in-situ water content, and the soil modulus using the Briaud Compaction Device (BCD).
  note: by Deeyvid Oscar Saez Barrios.
  note: "Major Subject: Civil Engineering"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2010-08-20 08:31:34).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master of Science Texas A&M University 2010 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-8042
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis)
  subject:
    topic: Major civil engineering
  subject:
    topic: Friction angle
  subject:
    topic: soil modulus
  subject:
    topic: back-fill
  subject:
    topic: index properties
  subject:
    topic: dilation angle
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-8042
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 100902
    record change date: 20151201154953.0
    record identifier: in00002601716