Browsing by Author "Egeli, I"

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    Mechanism and modelling of shallow soil slope stability during high intensity and short duration rainfall
    Egeli, I; Pulat, HF
    Shallow landslides in nearly saturated uncohesive to slightly cohesive soils are triggered by high intensity, short duration rainfall which infiltrates into soil and changes intergranular friction and effective stresses. For this, the especially developed Soil-Water Interaction Modelling System (SWIMS) was used with CL-ML type soils. For simplicity, rainfall intensity and duration were kept constant. Results showed that (1) All 35 degrees slopes were failed by translational failure. For the other (15 degrees, 25 degrees) slopes, no failures were observed; (2) For all slopes, FOS increased with increasing compaction degree and decreased with increasing slope angle; (3) Other parameters, such as soil density, porosity, saturation degree, water contents, and water permeability may also affect shear strength/slope stability, especially for low degrees of saturation (S < 95%), compared to high degrees of saturation (S =, > 95%). (4) A correlation of SWIMS tests observed that average wetting band depths (h(obser)), with the calculated wetting band depths from the Lump Equation (h(LE)), were poor, as h(obser) values were much higher than hLE values. Differences increased for very low degrees of saturation (S), compared to S > 95%. This meant that the Lump equation underestimated wetting band depths. Further, if the Lump equation is still considered valid, this would imply either water-permeability increases, porosity decreases or both occur towards full saturation; a process where the last possibility is the most probable occurrence. (C) 2012 Sharif University of Technology. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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    The effect of soil mineralogy and pore fluid chemistry on the suction and swelling behavior of soils
    Pulat, HF; Yukselen-Aksoy, Y; Egeli, I
    Soil suction is one of the most important parameters for describing the moisture condition and engineering behavior of unsaturated soils. Therefore, changes in suction behavior of soils in the presence of saline waters are important for engineered barriers. The aim of this study was to determine the change in suction and swelling behavior of soils, which were exposed to salt solutions (NaCl, CaCl2, natural seawater) with respect to distilled water. The three soil samples were gathered with different mineralogy and plasticity characteristics and tested for determining matric and total suction values and for obtaining free swelling characteristics in the presence of salt solutions. The bentonitic soil sample had the highest total suction value in the presence of seawater. Kaolinitic and zeolitic soil samples had the highest total suction values in the presence of NaCl solution. The highest modified free swell index value of the samples was obtained in the presence of NaCl solution for all the soil samples. No relationship was found between the total suction, matric suction and the modified free swell index value of the tested soils.