With the development of geo-energy engineering

temperature effects on consolidation and strength properties of soil become more and more important. Temperature-controlled triaxial apparatus are adopted to study the temperature effects on consolidation and strength properties of a silty clay by consolidation tests with increasing confining pressure under constant temperature

consolidation tests with increasing temperature under constant confining pressure and temperature-controlled triaxial compression tests. Test results show that consolidation rate is faster and consolidation volumetric strain is larger at a higher temperature. The normal consolidation lines under different temperatures are almost parallel to each other. Under the same confining pressure

void ratio is lower at a higher temperature. Consolidation volumetric strain induced by thermal stress increases linearly with increasing temperature. During shearing

the axial strain is higher at a higher temperature for the same deviator stress at low axial strains

while the trend is opposite at high axial strains. Deviator stress at failure decreases linearly with increasing temperature. The temperature effects are more significant at a higher confining pressure. Effective cohesion c’ decreases with increasing temperature

while effective friction angle φ’ is not affected by temperature.