The rheological behavior of soils depends on many factors, including their mineralogy and grain size distribution. This work comprises an extensive search of data collected from the literature, an experimental work on about 17 samples. These results, along with a compilation of existing data, have been used to show that, as a first approximation, the yield strength/viscosity ratio is about 1000, 100 and less than 10 for clayey, silty and sandy fine-grained sediments mixtures, respectively. Our research results on the rheological properties of fine-grained sediments indicate that they are very sensitive to the variation in grain size, shear rate, and geometry of the system.
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Jeong, S.W., Locat, J., Leroueil, S., Malet, J.P. (2007). Rheological Properties Of Fine-Grained Sediments In Modeling Submarine Mass Movements: The Role Of Texture. In: Lykousis, V., Sakellariou, D., Locat, J. (eds) Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6512-5_20
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