Behavior of Saturated Clay Ground Subjected to Traffic Loading

It is important to make clear the responses of saturated clays to repeated loads in relation to the low bank highway on the clay, because its settlement is conspicuous compared with that in the case of behavior subjected to static loads. In the present paper, for the comprehensive solution of this problem, experimental results by the cyclic triaxial compression test apparatus and their theoretical treatment are described. Concerning the theoretical study, a method of estimating the induced stresses of ground by traffic loads is proposed. Also, the experimental equations are build up by the results of undrained cyclic triaxial compression tests. It has become possible to estimate the behavior of clay ground subjected to traffic loading by combinning the calculated stresses of ground and the experimental equations.