ABSTRACT

Several creep tests on reconstituted soft clay were performed with a new biaxial apparatus designed at Technical University of Delft. With this device complex loading patterns can be applied, similar to field conditions. The aim of the tests is to study the relation between the creep behaviour and the applied stress path and stress configuration. The test results and the comparison with the creep behaviour described by different theoretical models (Janbu [1], Den Haan [2], Vermeer et al. [3], The et al. [4]) are presented in this paper.