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It describes variation of the void ratio e as a function of the change of effective stress ef plotted in the logarithmic scale:
Void ratio e versus effective stress ef It therefore represents a deformation characteristic of overconsolidated soil:
where:
e logef
Range of compression index Cc (Naval Facilities Engineering Command Soil MechanicsDESIGN MANUAL 7.01) A typical range of the compression index is from 0,1 to 10. Approximate values for homogeneous sand for the loading range from 95 kPa to3926 kPa attain the values from 0,05 to 0,06 for loose state and 0,02 to 0,03 for dense state. For silts this value is 0,20. For lightly overconsolidated clays and silts tested in USA Louisiana Kaufmann and Shermann (1964) present the following values:
Soil
Final effective stress in the soil ef [kPa] 200 250 350 350 290
CL soft clay CL hard clay ML silt of low plasticity CH soft clay with silt
layers
Prof. Juan M.Pestana-Nascimento (University of California, Berkeley) offers the following typical values of the compression index Cc:
Soil Normal consolidated clays Chicago clay with silt (CL) Boston blue clay (CL) Vickburgs clay - dray falls into lumps (CH) Swedish clay (CL CH) Canada clay from Leda (CL CH) Mexico City clay (MH) Organic clays (OH) Peats (Pt) Organic silts and claye silts (ML MH) San Francisco sediments (CL) Clay in the old San Francisco Bay Bangkok clay (CH)
and organic soils; their applicability, however, is more or less local:
Compression index Cc [-] 0,20 0,50 0,15 - 0,30 0,3 0,5 0,3 0,6 13 14 7 10 4 a vce 10 15 1,5 4,0 0,4 1,2 0,7 0,9 0,4
In addition, there are empirical expressions available to determine approximate values of Cc for silts, clays
Soil Transformed clays Clays Brazilian clays Sao Paulo clays New York clays Clays of low plasticity Taipei clays and silts
Equations
Clays
Pestana 1994
where:
e logef
- change of void ratio for the unloading-reloading curve - change of effective stress for the unloading-reloading curve
If no results from either laboratory or in situ measurements are available, the recompression index Cr can be approximately derived from:
where:
Cc
- compression constant