Microstructure Distribution of Soft Clay under Conditions of Stratigraphic Profiling Variation

Abstract:

Base on the microscopic structure is characterized by anisotropy of microstructure that inherent in the process of saturated soft clay with sedimentary primary anisotropy or external force caused by induced anisotropy, biological changes along with the trend of the minimum potential energy. By studying the spindle rotation stress characteristics of the soil of the microscopic distribution, the pore characteristics of saturated clay sourced from microstructure pictures in Pearl River Delta region of south China is analyzed considering the microstructure in different stress conditions. Microstructure distribution of soft clay under conditions of section profiling variation including the anisotropy ratio law of pore characteristics are focused to study saturated clay. It is found that major-minor axis status induced the directional property of saturated soil in the process of consolidation by vacuum preloading. And porosity shapes factors which are small indicate directional property would be probability entropy which is able to calculating the chaos of overall arrangement, and it will be a lower value because of directional property. It is apparently inconsistent with the pore distribution of saturated clay which results from the cut section of different point of angle. And horizontal joint and large pore space constitute one of the saturated clay structure characteristic, which related to different pressures.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 333-335)
• Pages: 1930-1933
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.333-335.1930
• Online since: July 2013
• Authors: Jing Song, Lian Sheng Tang, Hai Tao Sang
• Keywords: Force Vector, Major-Minor Axis, Microstructure, Pore Distribution

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