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<doi>/ISEC.res.2017.70</doi>
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<article-title>CREEP CHARACTERISTICS OF CHALK MARL<br/>
UNDER UNIAXIAL AND CONFINED<br/>
COMPRESSION STATE STRESS</article-title>
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<author>NURI AL-MOHAMADI</author>

<aff>Dept of Civil Engineering, Applied Science University, Amman, Jordan</aff>


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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>This paper studies the time-dependent deformation of chalk marl under uniaxial state of
stress in a specially built creep rigs, and confined compression stress state. The tests
carried out include: six uniaxial creep tests with vertical and lateral deformation
measurements, at different stress levels which lasted for 75 to 268 days, six oedometer
creep tests under different stress intensities and different loading conditions which
lasted for 80 to 250 days. All tested samples were trimmed from 113 mm diameter
cores. For uniaxial tests 0.5% axial strain occurred almost instantaneously in the first
series subjected to a stress level of 80%. In the second series subjected to a stress level
of 40%, the average initial strain was 0.25% which indicate clearly their stress level
dependency. After 75 to 150 days creep period, the measured average creep strain was
0.33% for the first series, which represents 57% of the consolidation strain. For series 2
the average creep strain = 0.26%, which represents 54% of the consolidation strain. This
implies that the proportional creep ratio Cr = (Et - E1) / E1 is independent of the
applied stress level, where Et strain at any time t, E1 strain at one day. For 1-D creep
tests E1 and the proportional strain (Et - E1) are not affected significantly by the
intensity of applied creep stress, while both of them are highly influenced by the
method of load application. From these results, it can be concluded that creep
deformation constitutes an important part of the total deformation of chalk marl.</p>
<p><italic>Keywords: </italic>Creep strain, Creep ratio, Lateral strain, Poisson’s ratio, Uniaxial loading,
Confined compression loading.</p>
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