Abstract
The cyclic liquefaction of soils and associated mud-pumping can lead to costly repairs of roads, railways, and other heavy-haul infrastructure. Over the last decade, several laboratory studies have been conducted to investigate these phenomena, but, due to the opacity of soil, the typical experimental observations of cyclic liquefaction have been limited to post-test observations of fine movement and the data of water pressures and soil settlements. In this paper, we show how partially transparent soil models can be used to provide the visualization of a moving saturation front and that fully transparent models can be used to observe fine migration during the cycling loading of a soil column. The changing saturation degree was tracked using a correlation between the degree of saturation, soil transparency, and grayscale image values, while particle movements of fines and larger particles were measured using a small number of fluorescent particles and particle tracking velocimetry. Another innovation of the work was in using mixtures of ethyl benzoate and ethanol as a low-viscosity pore fluid with the refractive index matching the fused silica soil particles. The benefits and challenges of these visualization tests are discussed.
Funder
Australian Research Council
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
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