There have been many methods proposed to predict undrained shear strength ratio and pore pressure parameter for isotropically- or, Ko-consolidated clays, and relatively recently, critical state theory has been used in the prediction.
The method based on the theory, which needs typically the estimation of critical state soil constants, has advantages in that it is applicable to the soils in various conditions. However, it has been known that the soil constants may show different values depending on testing conditions or the applied soil models, resulting in different prediction results.
In this study, a series of Ko-consolidated undrained triaxial compression tests were performed on remolded mudstone
weathered soils, and from the analysis of the test results, the prediction was made for the undrained shear strength ratio and pore pressure parameter of the soils, based on the critical state theory. The influence of the soil model constants on the undrained strength and pore pressure parameter was examined as well. The values of the Λ and r were found
to be different depending on the type of the tests (i.e., 1-D compression and triaxial compression tests) or the models(i.e., Cam-Clay, Modified Cam-Clay, and Undrained shear strength models) used to estimate them, respectively. As for the undrained shear strength ratio, the comparison between the predicted and the measured values from the triaxial
compression tests indicated that for all the values of Λ, the differences were lie within 5% when the r=2 and 1.86, while for the r=2.72, the predicted values were found to be 20 to 30% less than the measured values