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Record W4415808725 · doi:10.1680/jgele.24.00152

Effect of saturation procedures on direct simple shear testing of silt tailings

2025· article· en· W4415808725 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueGéotechnique Letters · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicGeotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics
Canadian institutionsFuture Earth
Fundersnot available
KeywordsShearing (physics)TailingsSiltSaturation (graph theory)Direct shear testSoil waterShear (geology)Brittleness

Abstract

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The direct simple shear (DSS) test carried out under constant volume (CV) conditions forms one of the primary laboratory techniques to characterise soils and tailings. The use of CV conditions to simulate undrained shearing is supported by historical evidence on the testing of a saturated clay and sands, with this evidence being incorporated into current guidelines and state of practice procedures. However, some recent comparisons of the results of undrained hollow cylinder simple shear (HCSS) and CV DSS tests on predominately silt gold tailings adopting state of practice test procedures (i.e. inundation of the sample after loose moist tamping) showed much less post-peak strength loss in the gold tailings than the undrained HCSS tests. The current study investigated this discrepancy further by carrying out DSS tests under high back pressures, undrained simple shear tests with flexible membrane and constant cell pressure and DSS tests after flushing with carbon dioxide and with use of a small back pressure. In all cases, the undrained tests or DSS tests with greater effort put towards saturation exhibited greater post-peak strength loss more consistent with the HCSS and the critical state line. The importance of these results on the estimation of tailings brittleness in engineering practice was outlined.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
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Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.164
Threshold uncertainty score0.616

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Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.210
Teacher spread0.206 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
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