Research Article

Micromechanism Underlying Nonlinear Stress-Dependent of Clays at a Wide Range of Pressures

Table 1

Changes in repulsion between clay particles due to the change of configuration.

Initial stateRepulsionConfiguration
After rotationAfter translation

Low pressure+45.95āˆ’4.91
+0.30+0.38

High pressure+37.37āˆ’26.97
+1.51+3.89