the CU triaxial creep tests of subgrade soft clay under different confining pressures were carried out by using multi-grade loading mode. The full-process creep curves under different confining pressures were obtained. Furthermore
the creep curves of multi-step constant load,the equal-time stress-strain curves were gained by using “Chen method”. Taking the confining pressure 100 kPa for example
a power&hyperbolic creep equation was proposed. In the equation
the power and hyperbolic equation are to model stress-strain and strain-time relationship respectively. Compared with Singh-Mitchell’s model and Mesri’ model
the creep equation suggested is thought to be more suitable to reflect the creep characteristics.