Civil Engineering - Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering - Discussion

Discussion Forum : Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering - Section 2 (Q.No. 30)

Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering

30.

The direct shear test suffers from the following disadvantage:

Drain condition cannot be controlled

Pore water pressure cannot be measured

Shear stress on the failure plane is not uniform.

The area under the shear and vertical loads does not remain constant throughout the test

All the above.

Answer: Option

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19 comments Page 2 of 2.

Sam said: 7 years ago

I think option E is correct.

Yohannis said: 7 years ago

The correct answer is E.

Pradip said: 7 years ago

Yes, I too agree the correct answer is option E.

Vicky said: 7 years ago

The answer is E. I too agree.

Vishal N said: 6 years ago

Yes, all of the above is correct.

Wakas said: 5 years ago

Yes, The correct answer is " All of the above. ".

Dipunku said: 5 years ago

All of the above is the correct answer.

Pramod jaiswal said: 4 years ago

I think option D) All of the above should be the correct answer.

Agha Bilal said: 7 months ago

@All.

Agreed with you all. All of these are disadvantages of direct shear test. So, Option (E) is the correct answer.

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