Solid Waste Engineering
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Author: Worrell
Publisher: Cengage
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Soil: ' = 20°
c' = 52 kN/m²
Unit weight, y = 15 kN/m³
Modulus of elasticity, E, = 1400 kN/m²
Poisson's ratio, μs = 0.35
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