Compression Behaviour of Chlef Sand and Transition of Fines Content Using Pressure-Dependent Maximum Void Ratios of Sand

This paper presents a study on Chlef sand to examine the effect of fines content (Fc), relative density (RD) and initial conditions on the compressibility behavior. The interpretation of the results is based on the concept of the intergranular voids ratio (es) and two hypoplastic parameters model Hs and n for calculation of the maximum voids ratio. The œdometric tests results made in the laboratory show that the fines content transition (Fct) of...