Determination of the Shear Strength of Rockfill from Small-Scale Laboratory Shear Tests: A Critical Review

Determining the shear strength of rockfill is a key task for the design and stability analysis of rockfill structures. When direct shear tests are performed, the well-established ASTM standard requires that specimen width and thickness must be at least 10 and 6 times the maximum particle size (dmax)...

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Main Authors: Akram Deiminiat, Li Li, Feitao Zeng, Thomas Pabst, Paul Chiasson, Robert Chapuis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2020-01-01
Series:Advances in Civil Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8890237