Creep and long-term strength of clayey soils in triaxial compression

The results of experimental investigations of the creep and long-term strength of clayey soils, which the authors conducted on a stabilometric type of triaxial-compression machine, are discussed. Equations describing laws governing vanishing and nonvanishing creep with allowance for dilatancy, and also a variant of the time-dependent equation of the limiting stress state are proposed. Translated from Osnovaniya, Fundamenty i Mekhanika Gruntov, No. 1, pp. 10–14, January–February, 1997.