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  1. Kereo

    Cantilever retaining wall design

    Hey everyone: Trivial question here, but I asked my colleague and didn't get a convincing answer :( So I've recently started designing a conventional cantilever retaining wall while working through the preliminary calcs, I became aware of the K(active) and K(passive) coefficients that I'm...
  2. Kereo

    Soil shear strength in general

    Hey all: Probably didn't phrase it properly [surprise] For a typical Triaxial test, is it possible to determine the shear strength of the entire soil layer lets say 5 meters homogeneous, just by sampling at different depth and interpret a "critical" value from the stress path? Secondly, I'm...
  3. Kereo

    NC Clay stress path

    Hey everyone: For NC clay with stress path shown, after excess pore pressure dissipates, where would the drained shear strength lie? At around the TSP line? Cheers

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