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1 COMPRESSIBILITY OF PEAT Brendan C. O Kelly Department of Civil Engineering Trinity College Dublin 15 th Irish Environmental Researchers Colloquium January 2005, Sligo 1

2 OVERVIEW Construction of embankments on peat deposits study compressibility of peat material calculating amounts and rates of settlement effect of peat fabric, inherently cross-anisotropic more accurate design predictions from numerical analysis assess accuracy of existing empirical correlations 2

3 TEST MATERIALS Bog peats from Carrick on Shannon Very soft, strongly degraded, fine fibrous peat (H6*) Soft, spongy, slightly degraded, coarse fibrous peat (H3*) (* von Post classification system) Sampling method: undisturbed borehole cores 100mm dia. fixed piston sampler, sharp 12 degree cutting edge 3

4 Depth (m) Soil description and classification (BS5930, 1999) w l w p I p G s In-situ properties w o e o g g d (%) (%) (%) (%) (kn/m 3 ) 1.5 Fine fibrous PEAT Coarse fibrous PEAT w l is the liquid limit; w p plastic limit; I P plasticity index; w o in situ water content; e o in situ void ratio; g bulk unit weight; and g d dry unit weight Water content w, mass of porewater to mass dry solid particles, as % 4

5 COMPRESSIBILITY PROPERTIES TEST APPARATUS: Oedometer consolidation cell Porous platen Loading cap Confining ring Test specimen Porous stone Test specimen dimensions: 76mm dia. x 19mm high 5

6 Specimen preparation study anisotropic compressibility 100mm dia. borehole core Vertical compressibility Horizontal compressibility 6

7 Specimen compression CONVENTIONAL ONE-DIMENSIONAL CONSOLIDATION CURVE Initial compression Primary consolidation Secondary compression Logarithm time, (minutes) 7

8 Strain Strain SAMPLE TEST RESULTS Fine peat material, largely isotropic compressibility Time (minutes) Horizontal compressibility Vertical compressibility Applied stress (kpa) Coarse peat material, strongly anisotropic Time (minutes) Horizontal compressibility Vertical compressibility 8 Applied stress (kpa)

9 Void ratio SUMMARY OF COMPRESSIBILITY DATA s vc ' Vertical compressibility Horizontal compressibility Fine peat material log stress (kpa) Void ratio, volume of void space to volume of solid particles s vc is the preconsolidation (yield) pressure 9

10 Void ratio s vc ' Vertical compressibility Horizontal comperssibility log stress (kpa) Coarse peat material 10

11 AMOUNT OF CONSOLIDATION SETTLEMENT determined using the compression index value Compression Preconsolidation index pressures (kpa) s vo ' h : v C cv s ratio vc ' s hc ' (kpa) Fine peat Coarse peat v = vertical, and h = horizontal, load directions 11

12 Fine peat material, isotropic but greater compressibility overall Cross-anisotropic reinforcement in the coarse peat material due to organic fibers Preconsolidation (yield) pressure significantly greater than actual insitu vertical stress (s vo ) combined effects of fiber reinforcement and sampling disturbance (preloading) calculations using lab data will under predict amount of field settlements 12

13 AMOUNT AND RATE OF LONG-TERM CREEP SETTLEMENT Secondary compression deformation of the solid particles themselves, dominant mechanism causing settlement calculate settlement rates using coefficient of secondary compression C s, values h : v h : v h : v h : v h : v Mean C sv C sv C sv C sv C sv ratio ratio ratio ratio ratio ratio Fine peat Coarse peat Stress range kpa kpa kpa kpa kpa v = vertical, and h = horizontal, load directions 13

14 s vc ' C sv Fine fibrous peat Coarse fibrous Peat log stress (kpa) C sv, coefficient of secondary compression step increase in settlement rate at preconsolidation pressure (but latter value was shown to be artificially high) calculations using lab data will under predict rate of field settlement 14

15 EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS Predicting compression index C c, values from soil index properties C c w l 10 Terzaghi and Peck (1967) Eq. 1 Cc w o Cc w o Hobbs (1986) Eq. 2 Azzouz et al. (1976) Eq.3 w l is the liquid limit, and w o the in situ water content 15

16 Compression index Fibrous peat Predicetd value Fine Coarse Terzaghi and Peck (1967) Hobbs (1986) Azzouz et al. (1976) Measured value Given that lab data will underpredict field settlements, C c values from Azzouz et al. (1976) will most likely agree with field compressibility Hobbs (1986) correlation too conservative 16

17 SUMMARY Embankment construction on peat deposits Settlement predictions based on lab data conservative Highly compressible material, Sampling disturbance causes preloading of the test specimen Likely empirical correlation after Azzouzz et al. (1976) most representative of field compressibility 17

18 Strongly degraded (fine) peat material, largely isotropic compressibility Slightly degraded (coarse) material, strongly crossanisotropic Step increase in compressibility at pre-consolidation pressure 18

19 THANK YOU 19

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