Author: Charles Rees NickersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shear strength of soils
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
"Some existing test procedures for measuring shearing properties of soils are reviewed. the correlation between the shear strength of two fine-grained soils as indicated by the unconfined compression test and the shear graph test is investigated. This is accomplished by comparing the test results at varying moisture contents and dry densities. One of the soils used is a red plastic clay, the other a silty clay. The test results indicate that for soils wet of optimum the shear graph strength can be taken as being equal to the unconfined compressive strength. This will be conservative for soils that exhibit an appreciable angle of internal friction. Two design changes are suggested that would make the shear graph results more reliable"--Abstract, leaf ii.