The variation of large strain viscous rate effects from undrained triaxial element testing of Kaolin clay - Measured Data

This dataset contains the measured data from the monotonic CIU triaxial tests on normally consolidated Kaolin clay presented in the corresponding publication: Robinson, S., Brown, M.J., Knappett, J., Brennan, A., Duran Caballero, D. & Arroyo, M. (2025). The variation of large strain viscous rate effects from undrained triaxial element testing of Kaolin clay. Acta Geotechnica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-025-02797-3

The data is from the primary author’s PhD Thesis: Robinson, S. (2019). Rate effect behaviour of different clays from high speed triaxial element testing. PhD Thesis, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK. This is available at: https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/rate-effect-behaviour-of-different-clays-from-high-speed-triaxial

The attached spreadsheet contains the measured Deviatoric Shear Strains and Deviator Stresses from each of the triaxial tests. The tests are fully described in the associated paper and in the author’s PhD Thesis. Each test is presented in an individual tab in the spreadsheet. The triaxial tests were normally consolidated. The naming convention of each tab is the initial mean effective stress used in the test, followed by the strain rate at which the test was conducted.

This work was supported by funding from the University of Dundee Division of Civil Engineering and the Institution of Civil Engineers Research and Development Enabling Fund (Grant R&D1201), which is gratefully acknowledged.