Relating Undrained Shear Strength to non-engineers
Relating Undrained Shear Strength to non-engineers
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Hi all,
I'm trying to come up with some examples of every day materials which I can use to describe the stiffness/undrained shear strength of mine tailings to a non-engineering audience. The specific case deals with mine tailings which range between approx. 100 and 800 psf undrained shear strength.
Its easy to say "oh that's as soft as toothpaste", but I really would rather have something to back me up when I say that.
thanks
I'm trying to come up with some examples of every day materials which I can use to describe the stiffness/undrained shear strength of mine tailings to a non-engineering audience. The specific case deals with mine tailings which range between approx. 100 and 800 psf undrained shear strength.
Its easy to say "oh that's as soft as toothpaste", but I really would rather have something to back me up when I say that.
thanks





RE: Relating Undrained Shear Strength to non-engineers
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RE: Relating Undrained Shear Strength to non-engineers
I had actually begun with a similar table, but wanted to take it a step further to take out the process of people having to think "what types of things are readily dented with strong pressure of my thumb". I came up with this table with a little brainstorming help from my co-workers (this would append to a table similar to the table you pointed out above.
Very Soft Toothpaste, Mashed Potatoes, Jello
Soft Play-doh
Medium Stiff Stick of butter right from fridge, silly putty
Stiff Tub of ice cream
Very Stiff Fully inflated basketball, unopened bottle of soda
Hard Hard candy, ice cube
RE: Relating Undrained Shear Strength to non-engineers
RE: Relating Undrained Shear Strength to non-engineers
RE: Relating Undrained Shear Strength to non-engineers