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Laboratory research on stiffness of unsaturated soil in very small and small strain region
Mohyla, Tomáš ; Boháč, Jan (advisor) ; Herle, Ivo (referee) ; Panuška, Jakub (referee)
Unsaturated soils have come into focus of the geotechnical community in recent decades. They are commonly found in the interaction of structures with the geological environment. Laboratory tests are important to provide information on the behaviour of unsaturated soils and as a fundamental input for the design of engineering structures. Laboratory tests can also be used to design and calibrate numerical models describing the behaviour of unsaturated soils. One of the important input parameters of such models is the initial stiffness of the soil and its decrease with increasing strain. This thesis deals with a laboratory investigation of the stiffness of unsaturated soil in the regions of very small and small strains. The tested soil was a loess from the quarry near the village of Horky nad Jizerou, Central Bohemia, which represents a typical soil found in engineering practice. The soil was reconstituted for the purpose of laboratory tests. The maximum (initial) stiffness of the soil was determined from measurements using piezoelectric bender elements and the stiffness decay curves were measured using local strain transducers (LVDTs). The laboratory tests were carried out in a double-walled triaxial cell for unsaturated soils, mounted with a high air-entry value ceramic disc (HAEV). The triaxial...
Analysis of cyclic plasticity of fatigued nickel based superalloys at elevated temperatures
Petrenec, Martin ; Tobiáš, Jiří ; Polák, Jaroslav ; Šmíd, Miroslav ; Chlupová, Alice ; Petráš, Roman
Cyclic strain controlled multiple step tests have been performed on cylindrical specimens of cast Inconel 738LC superalloy at 23 and 800 °C and Inconel 792-5A superalloy at 800 °C in laboratory atmosphere. The effect of temperature on the cyclic stress-strain response characterized by internal and effective cyclic stress components and on the dislocation arrangement has been studied. The evolution of the effective and internal stress components and effective elastic moduli were derived from the hysteresis loops analyzed according to the statistical theory of the hysteresis loop. Cyclic hardening/softening curves and shortened cyclic stress-strain curves were obtained at all temperatures in both superalloys. The shortened cyclic stress-strain curves (CSSCs) can be fitted by power law at all temperatures and for both materials. They are shifted to lower stresses with increasing temperature. The CSSC of Inconel 792-5A is shifted to higher stress amplitude in comparison with that of Inconel 738LC due to different number and type of precipitates. Observation of dislocation structures by TEM revealed cyclic strain localization into persistent slip bands. Cyclic stress-strain response is compared at all temperatures in both superalloys and discussed in relation to the changes of internal and effective stress components and microstructural parameters of the material. Higher stress response of the Inconel 792-5A than of the Inconel 738LC superalloy at 800°C is due to higher effective stresses of respective γ´ phases.

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