Abstract
An improved borehole shear test (BST) instrument was utilized to obtain the shear strength index of the soil layer in-situ. The results show that the shear strength index of the saturated silty clay measured by the improved borehole shear apparatus has a good linear correlation with the normal pressure, and the correlation coefficient can be greater than 0.98. The testing results were also compared with those obtained by the direct shear test (DST) in the laboratory. It was found that when the soil layer has a depth of less than 8.75m, the difference in the internal friction angle by the BST and DST is small. The former is 8%–33% larger than the latter. The deviation in the cohesion is obvious, which ranges from 20% to 61%. For the soil layer deeper than 8.75m, the situation is different. The difference in the cohesion measured by the two methods is small, which ranges from 8% to 9%, while the difference in the internal friction angle is distinct, and reaches 62%–85%.
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