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Causes of the loosening and failure of soils beneath plates

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S. S. Vyalov's's idea that microcrack development is the cause of the loosening of soils is used. Results of computational determination of the moment of initiation and development of microcracks in frozen sandy and cohesive soils in the beds of rigid cylindrical plates are presented. A comparison is made with data derived from experimental investigations. It is established by calculations that plastic shears and microcracks created by ultimate tensile stresses are the cause of widespread loosening and failure of sandy beds beneath plates.

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Translated from Osnovaniya, Fundamenty i Mekhanika Gruntov, No. 6, pp. 25–29, November–December, 2008.

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Khafizov, R.M. Causes of the loosening and failure of soils beneath plates. Soil Mech Found Eng 45, 225–230 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11204-009-9029-0

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