- flow in or out of the soil, the
stress path is
called an
undrained stress path.
During undrained shear, if the
particles are
surrounded by a
nearly incompressible...
- levels. In a 'consolidated
undrained' test the
sample is not
allowed to drain. The
shear characteristics are
measured under undrained conditions and the sample...
-
capillary pressure (which is lost upon wetting) Pore
pressure response during undrained loading (which is lost
through time) Root
cohesion (which may be lost...
-
limit and it has an
undrained shear strength of
about 2 kPa. When the soil is at the
plastic limit, the LI is 0 and the
undrained shear strength is about...
-
measure pore
water pressure. The
shear vane test is used to
determine the
undrained shear strength of soft to
medium cohesive soils. This
instrument usually...
-
Critical state soil
mechanics is the area of soil
mechanics that encomp****es the
conceptual models representing the
mechanical behavior of
saturated remoulded...
-
During industrial production of
Emmental cheese, the as-yet-
undrained curd is
broken by
rotating mixers....
- load is
transferred from the soil
skeleton to
adjacent pore
water during undrained loading. As pore
water pressure rises, a
progressive loss of strength...
- hole,
vernal pool,
prairie pothole, or
simply natural undulations in
undrained land)
filled by runoff, groundwater, or precipitation, or all
three of...
-
moisture content. The rate of
strain can be
varied to
create a test of
undrained or
drained conditions,
depending on
whether the
strain is
applied slowly...
