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Estimation of Subgrade Resilient Modulus from Soil

Index Properties
Magdi M. E. Zumrawi, Mohamed Awad

 tests to measure MR and soil index properties were performed

Abstract—Determination of Resilient Modulus (MR) is quite on different subgrade soils. Statistical analysis was performed
important for characterizing materials in pavement design and to develop equations that predict the resilient modulus.
evaluation. The main focus of this study is to develop a correlation
that predict the resilient modulus of subgrade soils from simple and
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
easy measured soil index properties. To achieve this objective, three
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subgrade soils representing typical Khartoum soils were selected and A. General
tested in the laboratory for measuring resilient modulus. Other basic
laboratory tests were conducted on the soils to determine their
The resilient modulus is a fundamental engineering material
physical properties. Several soil samples were prepared and property that describes the nonlinear stress-strain behavior of
compacted at different moisture contents and dry densities and then pavement materials under repeated loading. It is defined as the
tested using resilient modulus testing machine. Based on elastic modulus based on the recoverable strain under repeated
experimental results, linear relationship of MR with the consistency loads [3]. Seed et al. [4] originally introduced the concept of
factor ‘Fc’ which is a combination of dry density, void ratio and resilient modulus of a material, and defined this material
consistency index had been developed. The results revealed that very
good linear relationship found between the MR and the consistency
property as “the ratio of applied dynamic stress (σd) to the
factor with a coefficient of linearity (R2) more than 0.9. The resilient or elastic strain component (εr) under a transient
consistency factor could be used for the prediction of the MR of dynamic pulse load”. The resilient modulus is calculated from
compacted subgrade soils with precise and reliable results. (1):

Keywords—Consistency factor, resilient modulus, subgrade soil, d (1)

MR 
properties. r

I. INTRODUCTION In the resilient modulus test, the soil behavior under cyclic

T HE most important part of flexible pavement design, is the

determination of resilient modulus (MR) to characterize
the subgrade soil. MR is a measure of elastic modulus of a
loading shows a nonlinear stress-strain relationship [4]. The
soil resilient modulus is measured in a RLT compression test,
known as the resilient modulus test. The equipment used in
material at a given stress and is expressed as the ratio of this type of test is similar to that used in common triaxial
applied deviator stress to recoverable strain. AASHTO [1] compression test. During the test, specimens are subjected to
pavement design guide requires the use of MR to represent the testing sequences that consist of the application of different
material strength of pavement layers. Therefore, an accurate repeated axial deviator stress under different confining
measurement of MR is needed to ensure the efficiency and pressures. Also during the test, the recoverable induced axial
accuracy of the pavement design. strain is determined by measuring the resilient deformations of
The resilient modulus of soil is typically determined using the sample across a known gauge length. The AASHTO
the Repeated Load Triaxial (RLT) test. However, this test established a standard testing method [5] as the official
requires a well trained personnel and expensive laboratory laboratory test for determination of resilient modulus of soils.
equipment. In addition, it is considered to be relatively time
B. Factors Influencing MR
consuming. Alternatively, empirical equations from previous
studies have been used to determine resilient modulus in the Factors that influence the resilient modulus of subgrade
last three decades. The resilient modulus of subgrade soils is soils include physical condition of the soil (moisture content
related to several parameters, such as the soil support value and unit weight), loading condition or stress state, soil type
(SSV), the R-value, the California bearing ratio (CBR), the and its structure and consistency limits. The effect of some of
Dynamic Cone Penetration Index (DCPI) and the soil physical these factors on the resilient modulus of subgrade soils is
properties [2]. significant. Many studies have been conducted to investigate
This paper was initiated to evaluate the use of soil index these effects on the resilient modulus. Li and Emest [6]
properties as an alternative for determining the MR of reported that a resilient modulus range between 14 and 140
subgrade soils through basic tests. For this purpose, laboratory MPa can be obtained for the same fine-grained subgrade soil
by changing parameters such as stress state or moisture
content. Therefore, it is essential to understand the factors
M. M. Zumrwai is with Civil Engineering Department, University of affecting the resilient modulus of subgrade soils.
Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan (phone: 00249912355758; e-mail:
magdi.zumrawi@ yahoo.com).

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Stress State starts to decline fairly rapidly. As moisture content increases

The resilient modulus of any soil is a function of the state of and saturation is approached, positive pore pressure may
stress. Lee et al. [7] reported that stress state which includes develop under rapid applied loads which may cause a
the deviator and confining stress greatly influences the reduction in effective stress and permanent deformation
resilient modulus value. Many researches showed that the resistance of the soil [16]. The combination of a high degree
resilient modulus increases with the increase of the confining of saturation and low permeability due to poor drainage leads
stress [4], [8]-[10]. In general, the effect of confining stress is to high pore pressure, low effective stress, and consequently,
more significant in granular soils than in fine-grained soils [8]. low stiffness and low deformation resistance. Butalia et al.
Li and Emest [6] found that for fine-grain soils, resilient [17] investigated the effects of moisture content and pore
modulus decreases with an increase in deviator stress. Rada pressures buildup on the resilient modulus of Ohio soils. Tests
and Witczak [9] reported that for loading characteristics, on unsaturated cohesive soils showed that the resilient
factors such as stress duration, stress frequency, sequence of modulus decreases with the increase in moisture content.
load and number of stress repetitions necessary to reach an Jin et al, [18] studied the resilient modulus of subgrade soils
equilibrium-resilient strain response have little effect on and found that the resilient modulus value decreases as the
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resilient modulus response. water content increases up to a certain bulk stress. Also, they
found that the effective resilient modulus, which reflects the
Soil Physical State overall capacity of subgrade soils to support the pavement
The soil physical state such as moisture content and dry during the year, does not vary much with depth. Fig. 1
density has a significant influence on the resilient modulus of illustrates the variation of the resilient modulus for a fine
fine grained subgrade soils [6]. grained soil with different moisture contents [19].
The effect of dry density on the resilient modulus of
Other Factors
subgrade soils has been investigated by many researchers
[11]-[13]. Resilient modulus is greatly influenced by the dry There are other factors that affect the resilient modulus of
density of compacted soils. The soils compacted at higher dry subgrade soils. These factors include soil type and properties
densities exhibit a significant increase in resilient moduli. such as amount of fines and plasticity characteristics. In
Thompson [14] stated that soils compacted to the maximum addition, the sample preparation method and the sample size
dry density yield higher resilient moduli. Barksdale and Itani have influence on the test results. Material stiffness is affected
[15] reported that the resilient modulus increased markedly by particle size and particle size distribution. Thompson and
with increasing dry density. Robnett [8] reported that low clay content and high silt content
The moisture content plays a major role in the resilient results in lower resilient modulus values. Thompson and
response of cohesive soils subjected to resilient modulus Robnett [8] also showed that low plasticity index and liquid
testing [16]. Dawson et al. [16] found that below the optimum limit, low specific gravity, and high organic content result in
moisture content, stiffness tends to decrease with increasing lower resilient modulus. Lekarp et al. [20] reported that the
moisture level, apparently due to development of suction. resilient modulus generally decreases when the amount of
Beyond the optimum moisture content, as the material fines increases. Janoo and Bayer [21] noticed an increase in
becomes more saturated and excess pore water pressure is the resilient modulus with the increase in maximum particle
developed, the effect changes to the opposite and stiffness size.

Fig. 1 Variation of Resilient Modulus at Different Moisture Contents for Fine-Grained Soils [19]

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Seed et al. [4] reported that the compaction method used to C. Correlations for Predicting MR
prepare soil samples affected the resilient modulus response. Various correlations have been developed by previous
In general, samples that were compacted statically showed researchers to predict the resilient modulus of subgrade. These
higher resilient modulus compared to those prepared by correlations have taken different forms depending on the soil
kneading compaction. parameter(s) that are considered to have significant effect on
Ruttanaporamakul [22] conducted a study on resilient predicting the resilient modulus. Table II shows some
moduli properties of compacted and unsaturated subgrade correlations that have been proposed to estimate resilient
soils. He studied two different cohesive soils, Minnesota has modulus for fine-grained soils. These equations are empirical
high liquid limit 86% and plasticity index 53% and Louisiana relationships which correlate the resilient modulus to some
of low liquid limit 23% and plasticity index 12%. The soils soil properties such as CBR, R-value, and DCP. Soil index
were prepared at five different moisture contents and dry parameters such as soil fraction passing # 200 sieve, Atterberg
densities and tested for measuring resilient modulus as limits (LL, PL), moisture content and dry density are also used
presented in Table I. As observed from table, the compaction in some of the correlations.
moisture content and their corresponding dry densities greatly The developed equations given in Table II suffer from some
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affected the values of resilient modulus of the soils. It is clear problems. As it can be seen from table, the equations have no
that the soils compacted at higher dry densities and lower definite trend between resilient modulus and soil passing #
moisture contents exhibit a significant increase in resilient 200 sieve. In (11), it can be noticed that MR increases with
moduli. Also, the soil with low liquid limit and plasticity increase in PI and this is inconsistent with the principles of
index has higher resilient modulus. soil mechanics: The higher the PI the less stable the soil is.
TABLE I
Regarding the moisture content and the percent clay effects on
RESILIENT MODULI AND COMPACTION PARAMETERS FOR TWO COHESIVE MR, different equations show different trends. In (9), MR
SOILS [22] increases with an increase in moisture content and clay content
Water content, Dry density, MR , MR, and this result contradict the soil basic principles. In several
Soil
% pcf ksi MN/m2
equations, for example, (10), MR decreases with increase in
92.5 21.0 7.0 48.3
95.0 23.5 4.5 31.1
density. From a physical point of view, one would expect MR
Minnesota
96.0 26.0 3.9 26.9
to increase with the density.
(CH)
95.0 28.5 2.6 17.9 A cursory study of the previous equations suggest that soil
92.0 31.0 2.2 15.2 index properties such as Atterberg limits, moisture content and
118.7 9.1 10.0 69.0 dry density significantly affect MR. Due in part to nonlinear
120.7 10.3 8.0 55.2 behavior of soil, stress state becomes an important parameter
Louisiana as well.
121.7 11.4 7.5 51.8
(SC)
120.7 12.5 4.6 31.7
118.7 13.7 3.6 24.8

TABLE II
SOME CORRELATION FOR PREDICTION OF RESILIENT MODULUS
Correlation Equation Equation No. Reference
M R ( MPa )  10 CBR (2) Heukelom [23]
M R ( MPa)  37.3 (CBR) 0.71 (3) Green and Hall [24]
M R ( MPa)  17.6 (CBR) 0.64 (4) NCHRP [25]
M R ( psi )  3,000 (CBR ) 0.65 Paterson and Maree
(5)
[26]
M R ( psi)  7013.065  2040.783 ln ( DCPI ) (6) Hassan [27]
M R ( psi)  A  B( R  value) (7) Asphalt Institute [28]
M R ( psi )  3500  125( R  value) (8) Yeh and Su [29]
M R ( ksi )  37 . 431  0 . 4566 ( PI )  0 . 6179 (W c )  0 . 1424 ( P200 )  0 . 1791 ( 3 )  0 . 3248 ( d )
(9) George [30]
 36 . 722 ( CH )  17 . 097 ( MH )
  LL 
2 .06
P 
 0 .59 
M R ( MPa )  16 .75      200   (10) George [30]
  Wc  d   100  
 
M R ( psi )  342780  359S  325 3  86 PI  107 P200 (11) Farrar and Turner [31]
Note: CBR (%), DCPI = penetration index, mm/blow, R-value = Stabilometer value (1bs), A = 772 to 1155, B = 369 to 555, Wc = Moisture content (%), γd= Dry
density, g/cm3, S = Degree of saturation, PI = Plasticity index (%), LL= Liquid limit (%), P200 = Percentage passing #200 sieve, σ3= Confining stress (psi), σd=
Deviator stress (psi), CH = 1 for CH soil and0 otherwise (for MH, ML or CL soil), MH = 1 for MH soil and 0 otherwise (for CH, ML or CL soil).

III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY program was conducted on three soils, which comprise
To achieve the objective of this study, a laboratory testing common subgrade soils in Khartoum state. The soils were
subjected to basic tests to determine their physical properties,

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compaction characteristics, bearing strength and resilient the resilient modulus testing machine. The MR tests were
modulus. carried out on the surface of the samples confined by the
conventional CBR mould. The RLT test was conducted, to
A. Soils Used
determine the resilient modulus of the investigated soils,
Soil samples for this study were collected from three sites in following AASHTO [5] Fig. 2 illustrates the overall set-up of
Khartoum state. The first site is located at Almenshia (S1) in the resilient modulus test system utilized in this study.
Khartoum which is famous of expansive clay of high swelling
potential. The second site is located at Al Haj Yosif (S2) in
Khartoum North which is covered with clay soil of moderate
plasticity. The third site is located at Alfitahab (S3) in North
Omdurman where the soil is generally clayey Sand of low
plasticity.
Disturbed soil samples were obtained from subgrade soils
of existing roads. The soil samples were collected from 1 m
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depth by manual excavation of the ground at both sides of

existing roads. The soil samples from all three sites are
cohesive soils, containing mostly clay with some varying
amounts of fine gravel, fine sand and silt. The samples were
placed in plastic bags and transported to the soil mechanics
laboratory, university of Khartoum.
The studied soils were selected so that test results can be
utilized to establish and validate correlations to estimate Fig. 2 The Resilient Modulus Test System
resilient modulus of Khartoum state soils from soil properties.
Each soil was compacted at five different moisture contents
B. Soil Sampling and Testing
and dry densities. The resilient modulus tests were conducted
The three soils were initially air dried, crushed into small on compacted soil samples. The tests results for the studied
sizes and pulverized. The test samples were prepared by soils are presented in Table IV.
sieving the soils through sieve No.4 (4.75 mm). The fine
material passing sieve No.4 was used in the experimental TABLE IV
SUMMARY OF TESTS RESULTS FOR THE THREE SOILS
work. The soil samples were oven dried at 105-110 ºC for 24
Moisture Dry density, MR,
hours. The samples prepared for resilient modulus tests were Soil
content, % g/cm3 MN/m2
mixed with distilled water to the desired moisture contents and 16.5 1.64 18.5
manually compacted to different dry densities. 18.5 1.56 17.0
The three soils were subjected to standard laboratory tests Soil 1 20.5 1.49 16.6
to determine their physical properties and compaction 22.5 1.45 16.0
characteristics. Soil testing consisted of the following: grain 24.5 1.95 21.0
size distribution (sieve and hydrometer analyses), Atterberg's 5.5 1.79 30.5
limits (liquid limit and plastic limit), specific gravity and 8.1 1.81 28.2
Standard Proctor. These tests were conducted according to the Soil 2 10.3 1.77 22.3
standard procedures of the BS [32]. The measured properties 12.1 1.75 20.8
of the soils tested are presented in Table III. 14.0 1.66 17.0
4.5 2.12 57.0
TABLE III
6.5 1.89 44.0
THE PROPERTIES OF THE SOILS USED
Soil 3 8.5 1.99 46.0
Property S1 S2 S3
10.5 1.99 43.0
Gravel, % 1 0 2
12.5 1.95 40.0
Sand, % 9 63 80
Silt, % 35 15 10
Clay, % 55 20 10 IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Liquid Limit, % 77 40 24 The primary objective of this study is to correlate the
Plastic Limit, % 27 16 12 resilient modulus to simple and easy measured soil index
Plasticity Index, % 50 24 12
properties. The soil parameters which affect resilient modulus
Max. Dry Density, g/cm3 1.62 1.84 2.18
values include moisture content, dry density (i.e. placement
Optimum Moisture Content, % 20.2 10.1 8.4
conditions) and soil consistency index (i.e. soil intrinsic
Specific Gravity 2.76 2.70 2.66
properties).
Soil Classification (USCS) CH CL SC
A. The Consistency Factor
To measure the MR, soil samples were initially compacted This factor which combines placement and intrinsic
at different water contents and densities and then transferred to

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parameters is termed consistency factor. The factor (Fc) is increases linearly with factor Fc for all the five soils. Smooth
formed by combing some soil parameters, namely consistency linear relationship was obtained for the consistency factor (Fc)
index (CI), dry density (γd), density of water (γw), and void and the degree of correlation is excellent for the three soils (R2
ratio (e) in a way reflecting the influence of each of them on > 0.90).
resilient modulus (MR) value and it is expressed by (12):
60

  CI (12) y = 2.001x + 30.10

FC  d R² = 0.995
w  e 55

MR(MN/m2)
The CI is arithmetically 1-LI (where LI is the liquidity 50

index) as given in (13):

45

LLw (13)
CI 
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where LL is liquid limit; w is moisture content; PI is plasticity 35

index. 3.0 5.0 7.0 9.0 11.0 13.0 15.0
Consistency Factor , Fc
B. The Relationship between the Factor Fc and MR
30 Fig. 5 Resilient Modulus versus Consistency Factor for Soil 3

y = 1.553x + 13.49 50
25 R² = 0.978

40 y = 130.8x - 160.5
MR(MN/m2)

R² = 0.968
20
MR(MN/m2)

30

15

20

10

10

5
1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0
0
Consistency Factor , Fc
1.30 1.35 1.40 1.45 1.50 1.55 1.60
Consistency Factor , Fc
Fig. 3 Resilient Modulus versus Consistency Factor for Soil 1
Fig. 6 Resilient Modulus versus Consistency Factor for Minnesola
35 Soil [22]
y = 6.051x - 1.341
R² = 0.957 80
30

70
MR(MN/m2)

y = 140.6x - 61.72
25 R² = 0.930
60
MR(MN/m2)

20 50

40
15

30

10
1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 20
Consistency Factor , Fc 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0
Consistency Factor , Fc

Fig. 4 Resilient Modulus versus Consistency Factor for Soil 2

Fig. 7 Resilient Modulus versus Consistency Factor for Louisiana
Soil [22]
The consistency factor Fc (12) is applied to the study tests
data of the three soils and the data reported by previous The straight line shown in Figs. 3-7 can be expressed as:
researchers. Figs. 3-7 show the relationship of the resilient
modulus with Factor "Fc" for the three soils tested and the data (14)
MR  M  (FC  F0)
reported by Ruttanaporamakul [22] and given in Table I. It is
clearly observed from these figures that resilient modulus
where F0 = the value of FC at zero MR value; M = the gradient

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of the straight line.  On basis of this linear relationship, reliable strong

By substituting the values of the straight line constants "F0" equations have been established between MR and soil
and "M" as obtained for the five soils, the resilient modulus index properties.
can expressed as:  Comparison between the measured and the predicted MR
values for all the soil studied indicates that there is a good
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