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Determination of the relationship between uniaxial and triaxial swelling equations for clay bearing rocks

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Design in swelling mediums is mostly based on uniaxial data since the standards proposed by the International Society for Rock Mechanics Commission on Swelling Rocks for uniaxial tests are in the form of recommendations, triaxial sets are not highly available; and there is no standard developed for triaxial tests. The main purpose of this study is to define the relationship between the uniaxial and the triaxial swelling equations and to predict the triaxial values using the uniaxial data. The other purpose of the study is to contribute to the development of the standards and to expand the data available in the literature about triaxial swelling behavior. Numerous uniaxial and triaxial swelling tests were performed on the samples from seven different locations, in Turkey, in a state of the art swelling laboratory. As a result of the determination of the triaxial swelling behavior of these samples, the relationships between the uniaxial and the triaxial swelling data for the individual samples as well as the whole set of samples are expressed by the equations derived from the statistical analyses.

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The authors sincerely thank the TUBITAK (Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, Project No: 104M198) and Bulent Ecevit University for financial support and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable recommendations.

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  1. Department of Mining Engineering, Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Turkey

    M. Erdinç Bilir, Ahmet Özarslan & Melih Geniş

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Atılım University, Ankara, Turkey

    Y. Dursun Sarı

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Bursa Orhangazi University, Bursa, Turkey

    İbrahim Sel

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Bilir, M.E., Sarı, Y.D., Özarslan, A. et al. Determination of the relationship between uniaxial and triaxial swelling equations for clay bearing rocks. Bull Eng Geol Environ 72, 565–577 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-013-0523-2

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