Triaxial, stress controlled, drained tests on four undisturbed, overconsolidated clays from eastern Canada show that the strain energy can be used with advantage to define the limit state surface of such clays since a clear discontinuity in the energy–stress relationship exists for all possible stress paths. Along a K0 stress path the threshold energy, at the limit state, is a linear function of the preconsolidation pressure, i.e. of the vertical effective stress at the limit state. For other stress paths, at a given void ratio, the threshold energy is a function of the stress state at the limit state. Drained creep triaxial tests show that the strain energy is also a good indicator of the creep behaviour of overconsolidated clays. In particular the rate of dissipation of the strain energy is shown to depend essentially on the relative position of the applied effective creep stresses to the limit state surface of the clay. Des essais triaxiaux drainés à contraintes contrôlées sur quatre argiles surconsolidées intactes de l'est du Canada montrent que l'énergie de déformation constitue un bon paramètre de définition de la surface d'état limite de ces argiles. En effet une discontinuité nette de la relation énergie-contrainte se produit sur tous les chemins de contrainte possibles. Le long d'un chemin de contrainte K0, l'énergie limite, à l'état limite, est une fonction linéaire de la pression de préconsolidation, c'est-à-dire de la contrainte effective verticale à l'état limite. Le long d'autre chemins, à un indice des vides donné, l'énergie limite est fonction de l'état de contraintes à l'état limite. Des essais tri-axiaux de fluage drainé montrent que l'énergie de déformation est aussi un bon indicateur du comportement en fluage des argiles surconsolidées. En particulier la vitesse de dissipation de l'énergie de déformation dépend essentiellement de la position relative des contraintes effectives appliquées pendant le fluage et de la surface d'état limite de l'argile.
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