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Dynamic properties of freezing–thawing muddy clay surrounding subway tunnel in Shanghai

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Relying on the application of the artificial freezing method on subway tunnel construction, a group of cyclic triaxial tests were carried out to study the dynamic behavior of freezing–thawing saturated muddy clay under step cyclic loading. In terms of practical engineering, the freezing temperature and loading frequency were taken into account to indicate how the influencing factors affect the dynamic elastic modulus. The results indicate that the dynamic elastic modulus displays ladder-type drops with the increasing dynamic step loading amplitude. The dynamic elastic modulus increases with the growth of loading frequency. Freezing temperature has slight influence on dynamic elastic modulus, but the freezing and thawing cycles can lead to rearrangement of the soil structure. The dynamic elastic modulus increases with the growth of loading frequency. The fluctuation of dynamic elastic modulus is the most serious in the first stage and tends to be stable in the following steps. The fluctuation of dynamic elastic modulus of unfrozen soil is greater than freezing–thawing soil in the first stage. Based on a hyperbolic model, the dynamic constitutive behavior of freezing–thawing soil was investigated.

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Acknowledgments

The investigation was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41072204) and the National Key Technologies R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2012BAJ11B04). The authors are deeply indebted to the financial supporters. In addition, the authors would like to extend gratitude to Scott Swensen for his great help with the language editing of this paper.

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  1. Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, People’s Republic of China

    Jun Li, Yiqun Tang, Ping Yang & Qi Liu

  2. Key Laboratory of Geotechnical and Underground Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, People’s Republic of China

    Yiqun Tang, Ping Yang & Qi Liu

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Li, J., Tang, Y., Yang, P. et al. Dynamic properties of freezing–thawing muddy clay surrounding subway tunnel in Shanghai. Environ Earth Sci 74, 5341–5349 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-015-4546-9

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