1 - Triaxial Tests
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Practice Questions
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What does a triaxial test evaluate?
💡 Hint: Think about soil behavior under pressure.
Name one type of triaxial test.
💡 Hint: Recall the types we discussed.
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What is the primary purpose of a triaxial test?
💡 Hint: Think about what we measure in land engineering.
True or False: The UU test allows for drainage during the test.
💡 Hint: Recall the rules of the test types.
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Challenge Problems
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Given a soil specimen with an initial pore pressure of 50 kPa, determine how this might affect the failure envelope on a CU test when the axial stress applied is 100 kPa.
💡 Hint: Focus on how effective stress impacts the failure conditions.
For a CU test, if the cohesion (c) of the soil sample is found to be 10 kPa, what would be the expected shear strength at a stress of 60 kPa?
💡 Hint: Use the Mohr-Coulomb equation to calculate shear strength.
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