INVESTIGATION AND CALCULATION OF THE
STRESSED-STRAINED STATE AND COMPACTION
OF VISCOELASTIC DISPERSE MEDIA AS A RESULT
OF RELAXATION PROCESSES

D. I. Zolotarevskaya and N. N. Ivantsova

UDC 539.376:631.43:001.573

A theoretical study of the change in the stressed-strained 
state and compaction, under loading, of viscoelastic disperse media 
(including soils) with rheological properties varying with deformable-layer 
depth has been made. The processes of creep and relaxation of such 
media have been investigated. Calculations from the formulas derived 
for compactible soils have been carried out based on experimental 
data on the rheological properties of soils.

K. A. Timiryazev Moscow Agricultural Academy, 49 Timiryazev 
Str., Moscow, 127550, Russia; email: zolot@gagarinclub.ru. Translated 
from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 78, No. 5, pp. 78-86, 
September-October, 2005. Original article submitted October 29, 
2004.