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Find the pore water pressure at failure.
Answer to Problem 10.11P
The pore water pressure at failure is
Explanation of Solution
Given information:
The confining pressure of the clay
The deviator stress at failure
The confining pressure of the clay at the consolidated undrained triaxial test is
The deviator stress at failure
Calculation:
The consolidated drained triaxial test was conducted for normally consolidated clay and the same clay was carried out consolidated undrained triaxial test.
Consider the consolidated drained triaxial test.
Find the major principal effective stress at failure
Here,
Substitute
Find effective friction angle
Here,
Consider that the specimen as normally consolidated clay. Hence the effective stress cohesion
Substitute 0 for
Rearrange the Equation.
Substitute
Consider the consolidated undrained triaxial test.
Find the major principal stress
Here,
Substitute
Show the formula for major principal effective stress.
Here,
Substitute
Show the formula for minor principal effective stress.
Substitute
Calculate the pore water pressure using the Equation (1).
Substitute Equation (2), (3) in Equation (1) and
Therefore, the pore water pressure at failure is
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