Physical and Mechanical Properties of Turfy Soils under Confining and Axial Pressure Increases Stress Paths in Jilin Province, Northeast China

Lv, Yan; Huang, Yaolong; Liu, Chang; Su, Zhandong; Nie, Lei

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Physical and Mechanical Properties of Turfy Soils under Confining and Axial Pressure Increases Stress Paths in Jilin Province, Northeast China

Yan Lv,¹Yaolong Huang,²Chang Liu,¹Zhandong Su,³and Lei Nie¹

Academic Editor: Jian Ji

Received27 Apr 2020

Revised21 Dec 2020

Accepted18 Jun 2021

Published28 Jun 2021

Abstract

In recent years, highways have been built rapidly in China’s turfy swamp areas to accommodate economic development. Turfy soil is a type of special soil with high humus and incompletely decomposed plant contents, so its properties are complex and unique. Both the axial and confining pressures of turfy soil increase during embankment filling. Therefore, in this study, three soil tests for analysing the decomposition degree, organic matter content, and triaxial compression under confining and axial pressure increases stress paths were performed to achieve insights into the stress-strain properties of turfy soil. The volumetric and deviatoric strains of turfy soil were summarised to reveal the inner mechanisms of turfy soil, culminating in the establishment of a constitutive model for turfy soil. The results of the constitutive model were compared with the experimental test results to verify the accuracy of the constitutive model. The results showed that the stress-strain and strength of turfy soil are closely related to the organic matter content and decomposition degree. The calculated stress and strain results are also consistent with the experimental results, indicating that this constitutive model can be used to better indicate the original deformation state and strength characteristics of the turfy soil.

1. Introduction

Turfy soil is a special type of humic acid-rich humus soil [1] that possesses a unique set of soil properties, such as high organic matter, high compressibility, high moisture, high permeability, a high void ratio, and a low degree of decomposition [2] because of the unique external environment. It also possesses the general characteristics of soft soil, such as nonlinearity, expansion, contraction, plasticity, anisotropy, and rheology [3–5]. The expansion of large-scale construction projects in these turfy soil distribution areas reflects economic development trend, introducing several geotechnical engineering design concerns [6, 7]. The recent engineering design methods in turfy soil regions have been primarily adopting the general soil constitutive model, which makes it difficult to match to the actual engineering conditions, with large deviations often derived between the theoretical calculation and actual situation. More accurate solutions to this type of problem require a turfy soil constitutive model that considers the stress pathways that can provide a theoretical basis for addressing engineering problems and geotechnical engineering designs in turfy soil regions. Constructions of highways were developed rapidly in turfy swamp area during near decades. In the process of roadbed filling, the overlying load of the soil body increases, and the soil is compressed to produce lateral deformation, resulting in a confining pressure increase in the soil. Under this condition, both confining pressure and axial pressure of the soil body increase. Therefore, the stress-strain properties under CIAI stress path need to be studied in order to obtain the constitutive model of the turfy soil, which can be used to guide the highway constructions in turfy swamp area. In this study, we present the constitutive model of turfy soil under confining pressure increases and axial pressure increases (CIAI) stress pathways based on the abovementioned reasons and published case studies.

The equilibrium, deformation, and physical conditions should be considered in numerical soil computations, of which only the physical condition (constitutive relation) depends on the nature of the intrinsic material, which is essential to the numerical calculation [8]. Continuous developments in computer technology and the increasing maturity of the numerical calculation methods have helped solve these numerical equations easily. Therefore, the key to solving the turfy soil problem is to establish the constitutive model that can reasonably describe its soil strength and deformation characteristics [9]. Experimental studies have shown that the stress history, stress pathways, and physical state of the soil, such as its composition structure, have a significant impact on its constitutive model [10–12]. Turfy soil contains a considerable degree of plant residue and organic matter, and the influence of the stress pathways on the constitutive model will be more significant because of the complexity of its composition and structure [13]. Current engineering designs in turfy soil regions primarily adopt the general soil constitutive model, which makes it difficult to match the actual engineering conditions and yields a large deviation between the theoretical and actual situations. Therefore, there is an immediate need to solve this turfy soil constitutive model after considering the stress pathways, which can provide a theoretical basis for addressing engineering problems and geotechnical engineering designs in turfy soil regions.

The influence of the organic matter content in turfy soil on engineering geological characteristics was studied by Nie et al. [14], and the decomposition of turfy soil was studied by Haraguchi et al. and Pitkänen et al. [15, 16]. They analysed the relationship between the decomposition degree, oxygen consumption rate, biological accumulation, and the regional environment. The mineral distribution at different depths was tested by Nie et al. [17]. A joint analysis of X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopic images was performed to explain the mineral distribution and formation mechanism [18, 19]. All these studies were able to illustrate that the decomposition degree and organic matter of turfy soil have a significant influence on the physical and mechanical properties of turfy soil, leading to the consideration of decomposition degree and organic matter in the constructed constitutive model.

There are many types of soil constitutive models including the elastic model, E-ν elastic model [20], and a large number of elastic-plastic constitutive models. Based on bounding surface plasticity, a constitutive equation to simulate the nonlinear behaviours of sands under various loadings was proposed by Bardetq, and this model can be used to study sand liquefaction [21]. Gajo and Bigoni proposed a model for stress and plastic strain induced nonlinear, hyperelastic anisotropy in soils; the model is shown to yield very accurate simulations of the evolution of elastic properties from initial directional stiffening to final isotropic degradation [22]. Li et al. proposed a fractional derivative constitutive model of deep artificial frozen soil which was established based on the Nishihara model. This fractional derivative constitutive model was verified to describe the nondecaying creep deformation characteristics of deep artificial frozen soil under high confining pressures [23]. Yao et al. proposed a three-dimensional model for clays adopting a unified hardening parameter independent of stress paths, and it can be used to well simulate stress-strain relationships, shear dilatancy, strain-hardening and softening, and stress path dependence behaviour of overconsolidated clays [24]. Dafalias and Manzari construct a constitutive model for sands with simplicity and intelligibility which can be used to simulate both hardening and softening characteristics [25]. Xiao and Liu proposed an elastoplastic model incorporating state dependence and particle breakage by large-scale triaxial tests, which can be used to predict the stress-strain and particle-breakage behaviours of rockfill materials at various confining pressures [26]. A breakage critical state plane-based bounding surface plasticity model for rockfill materials was proposed by Xiao et al., and it excels in its ability to capture breakage phenomena [27]. The Domaschuk-Valliappan (K-G) model was devised to address the inaccuracies in Poisson’s ratio with obvious shear dilatancy [28], followed by different models for different soils [29, 30]. The modified Duncan–Chang model was proposed specifically for turfy soils in a consolidated drained triaxial test [31], but the model has been only suitable for constant confining pressure. Therefore, the constitutive model under CIAI stress pathways, which considers the decomposition degree and organic matter content, is established to investigate the stress pathways of roadbed filling in turfy soil regions.

The study area is located in Jilin province, Northeast China, which possesses a broad distribution of turfy soil. The area is located to the south of Dunmi Fracture Zone, where there has been a continuous drawdown since the Holocene, with long-term flooding being a primary cause of the observed turfy soil [32, 33]. The low-lying plain is surrounded by low mountains, especially in the Jiangyuan and Jingyu areas, providing ideal terrain conditions for turfy soil formation [34]. The study was conducted in an area of seasonal frost, with a maximum frozen depth of around 180 cm [35, 36]. Recent drill-hole results had revealed the distribution of a thick clay layer under the turfy soil layer, which prevented water infiltration into the turfy soil [33]. Two groups of soil samples were obtained in the Jiangyuan and Jingyu areas, and the exact sample locations are shown in Figure 1, and every soil sample was prepared for the organic matter content, decomposition degree, and triaxial tests.

2. Tests

2.1. Decomposition Degree Test

Each turfy soil sample was selected and divided into four equal parts using the fixed centre method, with two of the soil samples sealed in vacuum bags for the organic matter content test and the other two soil samples saved for the plant residue separation test. The soil samples were then cut into 1.5 cm³ pieces with a sharp knife for the plant residue separation test and placed into a beaker, followed by the addition of NaOH solution (∼3% concentration). The mixture was then boiled for at least 2 h to completely separate the plant residue and cementing material, followed by sieving the soil through a 0.25 mm mesh, rinsing the sieved material, and removing the lime, humus, and minerals. The resultant plant residue was then placed into a round-bottom bowl and dried in an oven at 65°C. The dried plant residue was then removed and separated into two samples, one of which was sealed in a dry vacuum bag for the organic matter content test and another sample was tested via the kerosene and volume method to determine the volume of undecomposed plant residue, as shown in Figure 2.

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The degree of turfy soil decomposition can be calculated using the following formula:where F is the decomposition of turfy soil (%), is the volume of plant residues, organic matter, and mineral particles in the carboniferous soil, is the volume of undecomposed plant residue after baking (cm³), is the void ratio of the turfy soil, and is the volume of the turfy soil before the test (cm³). The decomposition results are shown in Table 1.

2.2. Organic Matter Content Test

The ignition loss method is used to test the organic matter content of the soil samples because the turfy soil is rich in organic matter. The soil samples were first oven-dried at 65°C for 24 h continuously, ground into a powder, and sieved through a 0.5 mm mesh. The mass of the sieved powder m₁ (∼1 g) was placed in a high-temperature furnace at 550°C for 1 h, the soil sample was measured to determine its weight loss, and the process was repeated (burning and weighing) until the weight loss between the two adjacent steps was <0.5 mg, which yielded the final weight m₂ (g). The sequestration plant residue test was designed according to the test process for ignition loss measurements, with the weight of the plant residue following ignition denoted as (g).

From the definition of ignition loss, the loss of turfy soil, that is, organic matter content, could be calculated from the following formula, as seen in equation (2).where G¹ is the mass of turfy soil before burning and G₂ is that after burning. The ignition loss of the turfy soil (without plant residue) was calculated using the following formula:where M₃ is the burning loss of the plant residue existing in the m₁ turfy soil and M₄ is the weight of the plant residue existing in the m₁ turfy soil. M₃ and M₄ can be calculated as follows:where is the volume of the plant residue used in the decomposition degree test, is the weight of the corresponding plant residue following ignition at 550°C, is the density of plant residue after drying, and is the soil particle density of the turfy soil. The ignition loss results are shown in Table 2.

2.3. The Physical and Mechanical Index Measurements

The summary of the measurement results of basic physical and mechanical properties of turfy soil is presented in Table 3. The results suggest that the organic matter content and decomposition degree in turfy soil possess a certain correlation with their physical and mechanical indices.

Both the organic matter content and moisture content exhibited obvious decreases with increasing natural soil particle density, whereas the opposite trend was observed with the decomposition degree. The coefficient of compressibility, compression index, and swelling index of turfy soil were also positive with organic matter content and moisture content, whereas they were negative with the decomposition degree. The organic matter content and decomposition degree of turfy soil, therefore, exhibited a great influence on the physical and mechanical indices of turfy soil. The stress-strain, strength, and damage characteristics were also closely related to the decomposition degree and organic matter content of turfy soil.

2.4. Triaxial Test

The consolidation and drainage compression tests of turfy soil with CIAI stress paths were carried out. Unloading and loading tests were conducted on the same turfy soil specimen under CIAI stress pathways. CIAI is confining pressure increases and axial pressure increases. Under the condition of uniform consolidation, the confining pressure and axial pressure increased, and the proportion of the increase was constant under the condition of different consolidation stress (=50 kPa, 100 kPa, 200 kPa, and 300 kPa). The stress path diagram is shown in Figure 3. The relationship curve was determined for the turfy soil samples (#1–#4), as shown in Figure 4.

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Volume expansion occurred in soil samples #2 and #3 during unloading at low initial consolidation stresses , especially sample #3 at a stress of 50 kPa, where a volume expansion of 0.39% was observed because of the high organic content. The microstructure of the turfy soil in Figure 5 indicates that the organic matter particles in sample #3 are significantly small, possessing primarily circular granular particles, such that the connection between particles is not tight and micropores develop, leading to the formation of a flocculation structure bonded together in a chain distribution. The chain structure of the micropores formed by the organic matter particles during the loading process will be populated with close-grained particles when the consolidation stress level is low, and the cementation of the tension effect will become more obvious, with this type of chain structure gradually returning to its original shape when under tension during unloading.

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Soil sample #1 underwent a larger volume contraction compared to other samples when the consolidation stress level was increased, primarily because the decomposition degree of sample #1 was the smallest of the four turfy soil groups. This suggests that the hydraulic pathway formed by the plant fibre and plant residual root is greater in sample #1, meaning that when the consolidation stress level is higher, this pathway is damaged, and the drainage process is limited by a certain degree. Therefore, a drainage lag phenomenon occurs at the start of unloading.

The relationship curve for turfy soil samples under the CIAI pathways is drawn on a semilog plot to reflect the development rule of the volumetric strain along with the average stress more clearly, as shown in Figure 6. The initial consolidation stress has an important effect on the curve, with the increase in the initial consolidation stress of the same undisturbed turfy soil increasing the segmentation point of . This indicates that the increase in the initial consolidation stress also increases the yield stress, likely caused by compressive hardening.

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The four curves for each group of turfy soil exhibit no obvious changes under the same consolidation stress, but the slope of the straight line exhibits the following general trend: #3 > #2 > #4 > #1. This is because the organic matter content (does not contain residual roots and plant fibre) in turfy soil #3 is less than that in samples #2 and #1, and the decomposition degree in turfy soil #3 is more than those in samples #2 and #1, possessing small organic matter particles that form weaker embedding and interlocking bonds, such that turfy soil #3 undergoes greater volume deformation at the same loading mode.

2.5. Partial Strain Properties of Turfy Soil When Loading and Unloading

We can determine the turfy soil deviatoric strain based on the measured data and the formulation under the CIAI stress pathways. The deviatoric stress and deviatoric strain relations of turfy soils #1–#4 are shown in Figure 7.

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The four sample groups exhibited only a low level of recoverable elastic strain after unloading, with most of the deformation being unrecoverable plastic strain. This suggests that a larger displacement exists between the organic matter molecules and the skeleton structure consists of internal plant residue and plant fibre as the axial and radial stresses increase. The concept of the elastic deviator strain ratio is introduced to better highlight the differences between the corresponding elastic and plastic strains of the four turfy soil samples under different consolidation states, which is expressed aswhere is the elastic deviatoric strain ratio, is the deviatoric stress during unloading, is the deviatoric strain at the initial unloading, is the deviatoric strain when the unloading is complete, and is the standard atmospheric pressure. The calculation results are listed in Table 4.

The elastic strain ratios of turfy soils #3 and #1 yield the minimum and maximum ratios, respectively, when the initial consolidation stress is low because turfy soil #3 contains a large amount of organic matter particles comprising small flocculated structures. There are micropores between the particles when the initial consolidation stress is low, with the increase in the axial and confining pressures generating a relative displacement between the particles and structure units, which changes the original particle positions and fills the micropores, such that the deformation cannot recover upon unloading, resulting in permanent deformation. Turfy soil #1, which possesses considerable plant residue and plant fibres, exhibited little destruction of the tubular structure of the plant residue and plant fibres when the consolidation stress was low, with the hydrated film thinning because of the squeezing out of the water existing in the tubular structure during loading, resulting in a tensile state due to cementation between the soil particles and plant residue. The decrease in the axial and radial stresses during unloading as the water re-enters the tubular structure of the plant residue and plant fibres leads to the recovery of the hydrated film, as well as some of the deformation caused by the plant residue and plant fibres, and this may be the reason for turfy soil #1 yielding the largest elastic strain ratio.

The elastic strain ratio of turfy soil sample #3 was larger than those of the other samples when the initial consolidation stress was higher because it is easier for soil consolidation due to the presence of high organic matter content. The micropores in the turfy soil were filled by organic matter particles after the sample was held in a state of compression consolidation for a period of time. However, when the axial and confining pressures increased, it became difficult to produce the relative displacement between particles, with the micropores compressed with organic matter particles, soil particles, and a hydration shell. Water then reentered the pore space between the soil particles during unloading, resulting in the larger elastic strain ratio.

2.6. Deviatoric Strain of the Turfy Soil without Unloading

The curves of the turfy soil samples under different consolidation states are shown in Figure 8. The semilog plots of the curves of the four soil samples exhibit similar shapes, meaning that the curves follow a power function when the deviatoric strain is low and then become linear at the yield strain, with different intercepts and slopes for different soil samples.

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The shear elastic moduli of the four turfy soils are highly similar. This is because while the soil samples with the skeleton structure and micropores were further compressed and filled during loading under the CIAI pathways, with little porosity left in the samples after loading, the deviatoric strain was primarily dependent on the axial variable, and the axial strains of the four soil samples were similar during shearing.

3. Model Construction

3.1. Volumetric Strain of Turfy Soil

The curve of turfy soil can be broken into a power function curve and a straight line, as shown in Figure 9, such that the curve can be expressed as the following set of functions:where H₁ and H₂ and B₁ and B₂ are experimental parameters, H₁ and B₂ correspond to the intercept and slope of the curve, H₂ equals when , and is the yield stress.

The yield spherical stress is dependent on the decomposition degree F, organic content , and the initial consolidation stress . A total of 16 samples were selected for the multivariate linear regression, with the regression model constructed as follows:where x₁, x₂, and x₃ represent , F, and , respectively. The calculated results are as follows: , , , and ; the confidence intervals for , , , and are (114.003, 576.088), (0.748, 0.907), (−3.753, −0.439), and (−5.540, −1.403).

The results of the residual analysis in Figure 9 indicate that the residue of the 16 samples is close to zero, meaning that the regression model is in good agreement with the original data. The statistical analysis yields the following results: R² = 0.978, F = 132.093, and P_F = 0.00 < 0.05, confirming that the regression model is feasible. Therefore, the yield spherical stress of the regression model can be obtained as follows:

The segmentation points of formula (7) were determined using , allowing the experimental parameters (H₁, H₂, B₁, and B₂) to be determined through nonlinear fitting. The results are listed in Table 5.

H₁ decreases with an increase in consolidation stress, as shown in Table 5, and the relationship between and is shown in Figure 10. H₁ and exhibit a linear correlation in log-log space, which can be described as follows:where and are model parameters. The calculation results are detailed in Table 6.

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The volumetric strain exhibited only minor differences with increasing yield spherical stress for the same turfy soil samples when considering the relationship between the experimental parameter H₂ and , where H₂ represents the pressure sensitivity of the turfy soil after yielding. H₂ and also exhibit a linear correlation in log-log space, which can be described as follows:where and are model parameters. The calculation results are listed in Table 6.

The volumetric strain of turfy soil under CIAI pathways can be described as follows:

The deviatoric stress can then be obtained from the regression model for turfy soil as follows:

The results of the model parameters are summarised in Table 7.

The deviatoric strain of turfy soil under CIAI pathways can be described as follows:

3.2. Validation of the Constitutive Model

Two turfy soils were tested to assess the accuracy of the constitutive model. Additionally, a modified model was used to predict the q-ε₁ curve [37]. The experimental and prediction results are summarised in Figure 11, and the purple-dashed line shows the results predicted by the model proposed in this paper. In the elastic stage, the constitutive model’s results are consistent with the experimental results, whereas the calculated strain results are slightly less than the experimental results. Overall, the predictions of the modified model are relatively smaller, while the predictions of the stress path constitutive model constructed in this paper are slightly larger. The constitutive model’s results are consistent with the experimental results, suggesting that the stress path constitutive model constructed in this article can accurately simulate the deformation and strength characteristics of the original state of turfy soil under CIAI pathways.

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4. Conclusion

(1)The decomposition degree and organic matter content exerted strong influences on the physical and mechanical properties, such as stress, strain, strength, and failure characteristics of the analysed turfy soils.(2)The decomposition degree and organic matter content tests, along with drained triaxial compression tests under CIAI pathways, revealed changes in the volumetric strain and plastic deviator of the turfy soils under the CIAI pathways, thereby allowing for a constitutive model to be established.(3)The results calculated by the constitutive model, which considers the decomposition degree and organic matter content, are similar to the experimental results, and they may provide a comprehensive representation of the original deformation state and strength characteristics of the turfy soil.

Data Availability

The settlement monitoring data used to support the findings of this study are included within the article. The partial analysis data used to support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon request.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful for financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 41502272 and 41572254). The authors received funds to cover publication costs, and they also would like to acknowledge the testing science experiment center of Jilin University for supporting the experiment.

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