@inproceedings{8daf010e7c9a44ba96ca6fac5fccf2a1,
title = "Effect of water content on long-term cyclic behaviour of railway track-bed materials",
abstract = "The {\textquoteleft}Interlayer{\textquoteright} soil in the French conventional railways track-beds, a coarse grain soil with low permeability, was studied at different hydric conditions: w=4\% (OPM) and w=10\% (Saturated) using a large-scale triaxial ({\o}=300 mm) cell. For each test, 5 different cyclic loading levels has been considered (from Δq=10 kPa toΔq=30 kPa per cycle).The loading levels simulate the real loading at the interlayer depth in a real railway track-bed. The results clearly showthe influence of the non-saturation on the evolution of elastic modulus and damping ratio. When the loading level is increased, the elastic modulus decreases and the damping ratio increases. The accumulation of plastic strains after 90000 cycles was also analyzed for both hydric conditions, showing that the initial moisture content and the elastic modulus greatly affect the accumulative strains.",
author = "F. Lamas-Lopez and Cui, \{Y. J.\} and Dupla, \{J. C.\} and Tang, \{A. M.\} and J. Canou and N. Calon and \{Costa D{\textquoteright}Aguiar\}, S.",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 Taylor \& Francis Group, London.; 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Unsaturated Soil Mechanics from Theory to Practice, AP-UNSAT 2015 ; Conference date: 23-10-2015 Through 26-10-2015",
year = "2016",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1201/b19248-149",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781138029217",
series = "Unsaturated Soil Mechanics from Theory to Practice - Proceedings of the 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Unsaturated Soils",
publisher = "CRC Press/Balkema",
pages = "889--894",
editor = "Zhenghan Chen and Changfu Wei and Dean Sun and Yongfu Xu",
booktitle = "Unsaturated Soil Mechanics from Theory to Practice - Proceedings of the 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Unsaturated Soils",
}