Abstract:As a widely used subgrade filler, soil-rock mixtures form reinforced structures with geogrids that serve as critical components for bearing and transferring traffic loads. Their strength and stability are affected by the dynamic shear characteristics at the soil-reinforcement interface under normal cyclic loading. A series of dynamic direct shear tests were conducted on soil-rock mixture-geogrid interface using a large-scale dynamic shear apparatus. The effects of normal loading frequency (0.05, 0.1, 1 Hz) and normal stress amplitude (20, 40, 60 kPa) on the interface shear characteristics of soilrock mixture-geogrid interface at different fines content (0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, 100%) were analyzed. The results showed that under normal cyclic loading, both the shear stress and normal displacement exhibited periodic variations. The interface shear strength initially increased and then decreased with increasing fines content, reaching its maximum value at a 40% fines content. Furthermore, the interface shear strength increased with the amplitude but decreased with the frequency. Increasing fines content reduced interface shear shrinkage, whereas increasing the amplitude and frequency enhanced it. The interface friction coefficient and normal stress demonstrated the same periodic variation, with a phase difference of approximately 0.5 cycles. Notably, the interface friction coefficient, both at peak and residual stages, showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing as the fines content rose.