Mahmoud Ghazavi - Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran
Javad Ghaffari - PhD Student, Civil Engineering Department, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

The time-dependent behavior of soils has been investigated extensively using one-dimensional and triaxial tests. The phenomena associated with time effects in soils are creep, relaxation, strain rate and rearrangement effects. The engineering properties of soil are often improved significantly with the time elapse. The objective of this paper is to investigate the time-dependent effect on the shear strength parameters of sand–geosynthetic interface using large direct shear test apparatus. For this purpose, the geotextile layer has been adhered gently on a piece of wood with a thickness such that a half of the shear test box has been occupied. The other half of the box has been filled with the sand and the test has beenperformed. Three normal stresses of 30, 45, and 60 kPa have been applied in all tests. The shear stress has subsequently been applied in different times to the failure stage. In all tests, the shearing velocity has been kept the same. The results of these experiments show that the stiffness and friction angle of the dry sand– geotextile interface increases up to 12.6% and 3.9% at 720 minutes after the sample is poured in the mold

geosynthetic, large direct shear test, aging, friction angle, sand–geotextile interface