Creep behavior of fine-grained ocean sediments

Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

1-1-1991

Abstract

Long-term downslope creep deformations of submarine sediments have been studied through the use of geophysical evidence, laboratory testing and computational modeling. Results are presented of long-term, triaxial and direct simple shear creep tests of anisotropically consolidated specimens from the Gulf of Mexico. Axial, volumetric and shear creep strains were found to follow a simple logarithmic time relation. Some of the experimental data indicated that aging and history effects are present and that proper constitutive laws should contain this type of feature. -from Authors

Publication Title, e.g., Journal

Computer methods and advances in geomechanics. Proc. 7th international conference, Cairns, 1991. Vol. 1

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