Civil Engineering - Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering - Discussion

Discussion Forum : Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering - Section 2 (Q.No. 13)
13.
The Westergaard analysis is used for
sandy soils
cohesive soils
stratified soils
clayey soils.
Answer: Option
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Nivruti kamble said:   10 years ago
Define stratified soil please?
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Rosh said:   10 years ago
Stratified soil means soil which is having different layers also called as layered soil.
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Chintu said:   8 years ago
Assumptions:

(1) The soil is elastic and semi-infinite.
(2) Soil is composed of numerous closely spaced horizontal layers of negligible thickness of an infinite rigid material.
(3) The rigid material permits only the downward deformation of mass in which horizontal deformation is zero.
(3)

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