… The general form of the critical state surface in volumetric strain/… a condition of no lateral
strain, and the critical state line to failure. All stress paths for normally consolidated sediments …

… Sediment deformation is always governed by the effective stress. Therefore, the … critical
state models and proposed a generalized family of new models. One result of this analysis was …

… Table 1 summarizes the experimental data analyzed in the current study. Most of the … and
postpeak strain-softening behavior corroborates the capability of the critical state framework in …

… sediments at critical state … critical state lines for methane hydrate-bearing sediments in two
representative planes. Published triaxial and plane-strain test data are reused for the analysis …

… ) occurs on the right side of the critical state line, when plastic deformation is diffuse. … Not
only does compaction occur in sedimentary basins in a vertical sense; our results discussed in …

… deformed to large strains to define the critical state line over a wide range of pressures for
each rock type. Results confirm the rock type-independence of the critical state … re-analysis of …

… deformation, a condition known as the critical state. Hence these stressvolume analyses
are commonly called critical state … of critical state models to various submarine sediments is …

… The grain size distribution of sediments is a fundamental control on sediment deformation
… 152 6-1 Particle size distribution by sieve analysis before and after compresion tests on …

… Such sediments are likely to deform during hydrate dissociation. Therefore, including realistic
fluid-thermal equations into geomechanical modeling was the next logical progression for …

… Coarse-grained sediments tend to contain methane hydrates … According to the previous
analysis, the four critical state … the measured values in the large strain regime. This may be …