Since CU is an undrained test, does it not imply a phi=0 condition? In other words, is the phi angle we get from total stress envelope in a CU test of any use? Am I understanding it correctly?
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For a slope stability project I am involved in, we ran CU tests with pore pressure. We also ran hydrometer tests for the same sample. The drained angle of friction i am getting from the CU envelope is smaller than the drained fully softened angles that i get using the correlation between...