Hi SuperSandman
if you have calculated the Cu of the clay, why not use the relationship from the TxUU: q=2xCu?
this is what i would do, but i am not sure if it fit in your contest.
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Hi a8006
contractors want always find the shortcut to finish the job very quickly and if there is no proper QC on site failures most propably will happen as showed you by Penc.
however sometimes consider the dimensions of the wall you might want to use a bidirectional geogrid that can be...
thank you Mike.
i agree with you, i hope there was a simple answer to that. However if you analyze more in details, i might use the pore water pressure (Ru) instead.
when a loading is applied to a clay soil. Ru=1 which means that the full load is taken by the water and the soil does...
i want to explain in a simple way the behaviour of a soil subject to a loading such as an embankment. as per design, undrained and drained checks need to be done if the soil is a clay.
the question that i have is how do you check when a clay moves to undrained to drained conditions?
i have an...
