Civil Engineering - Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering - Discussion

Discussion Forum : Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering - Section 5 (Q.No. 28)
28.
A triaxial shear test is prefered to direct shear test, because
it can be performed under all three driange conditions with complete control
precise measurement of pore pressure and change in volume during test, is not posible
stress distribution on the failure plane, is non uniform
none of these.
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Aditya said:   9 years ago
We can't prevent drainage in direct shear test.

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