Principles of Geotechnical Engineering (MindTap Course List)
Principles of Geotechnical Engineering (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305970939
Author: Braja M. Das, Khaled Sobhan
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Find the undrained shear strength of the clay.

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12.12 Following are the results of consolidated-undrained triaxial tests on undisturbed soils retrieved from a 4-m-thick saturated clay layer in the field (ysat = 19 kN/m³). a. Estimate graphically the Mohr–Coulomb shear strength parameters c' and ø'. b. Estimate the shear strength in the middle of the clay layer. Chamber Deviator stress, pressure, o3 (kN/m?) (Ar), (kN/m?) Pore pressure at failure, (Aud, (kN/m?) Test no. 1 100 170 -15 200 260 -40 3 300 360 -80 © Cengage Learning 2014
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