Cohesive Fill

Either man-made or relaid natural materials which behaves in an undrained manner in the short term, and in a drained manner in the long term.

 

Classification

Items > Materials > Cohesive Fill

 

Available in the following programs

Repute

 

Properties

Property

Type

 

Description

Default value/units

Example/range of values

General

Name

The item's name

Soil 1

any text

Type

The item's type

Cohesive Fill

 

Category

The item's sub group

Soil

 

Kind

The item's group

Materials

 

Notes

Free-form notes regarding this item

 

any text

Classification

Class

The soil's class

clMg

clMg, siMg

State

The soil's state

-

Extremely low, very low, low, medium, high, very high, extremely high strength

Strict validation

Tick to apply narrow limits to soil parameters, otherwise wide parameters are used

no

yes/no

Is Fissured?

Flag indicating whether the soil contains fissures

no

yes/no

Mass/Weight densities

See Cohesive Soils

Drained strength

See Cohesive Soils

Drained stiffness

See Cohesive Soils

Undrained strength

See Cohesive Soils

Undrained stiffness

See Cohesive Soils

Help

Help file

Help file providing further information about this soil

Rex.chm

 

Web site

 

Web site for the program

www.geocentrix.co.uk/help/

 

 

Classification of cohesive made ground

Classification

Symbol

silty made ground

siMg

clayey made ground

clMg

 

Database properties of cohesive fill

Parameter

Classification

Minimum

Default

Maximum

Class

State

Ext.

Normal

Normal

Ext.

r d (kg/m3)

All

All

950

1100

1550

1750

1900

r s (kg/m3)

All

All

1300

1500

1850

2050

2250

f peak (deg)

All

All

15

17

21

30

35

f crit (deg)

All

All

15

17

21

28

30

c'peak (kPa)

All

All

Not applicable

c'crit (kPa)

All

All

Not applicable

Cu (kPa)

All

Unspecified

1

20

20

150

1000

Extremely low

1

5

7

10

20

Very low

1

10

15

20

30

Low

10

20

25

40

60

Medium

30

40

50

75

100

High

60

75

100

150

200

Very high

100

150

200

300

400

Extremely high

200

300

375

500

1000

DCu (kPa/m)

All

Very low

Low

-100

-10

0

4

100

Others

-100

-10

0

8

100

 

 

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