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Cantilever retaining wall design
Hey everyone: Trivial question here, but I asked my colleague and didn't get a convincing answer :( So I've recently started designing a conventional cantilever retaining wall while working through the preliminary calcs, I became aware of the K(active) and K(passive) coefficients that I'm...- Kereo
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- Forum: Foundation engineering
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Soil shear strength in general
Hey all: Probably didn't phrase it properly [surprise] For a typical Triaxial test, is it possible to determine the shear strength of the entire soil layer lets say 5 meters homogeneous, just by sampling at different depth and interpret a "critical" value from the stress path? Secondly, I'm...- Kereo
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- Forum: Soil testing engineering
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NC Clay stress path
Hey everyone: For NC clay with stress path shown, after excess pore pressure dissipates, where would the drained shear strength lie? At around the TSP line? Cheers- Kereo
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- Forum: Soil mechanics engineering
