Research Article
Fractal Pattern of Particle Crushing of Granular Geomaterials during One-Dimensional Compression
Table 1
Details of initial PSDs of the specimens and parameters of the tests.
| Geomaterials | Specimen number | Initial PSD (%) | Specimen dimension | Initial void ratio | Specific weight | Vertical stress level | 5000∼2000 (μm) | 2000∼1000 (μm) | 1000∼500 (μm) | 500∼250 (μm) | 250∼100 (μm) | 100∼74 (μm) | D × H (mm × mm) | e0 | Gs | σV (MPa) |
| Quartz sand and gravel (QS) | QS1 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 79.8 × 20 | 0.78 ± 0.03 | 2.67 | 0, 0.8, 1.6, 3.2, 6.4, 12.8, 25.6, 51.2, 102.4, 204.8 | QS2 | 0 | 60 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | QS3 | 34.2 | 33.3 | 22.3 | 9.4 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
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