Thank you EireChch. Agree! I contacted an university profesor and received the same response. Total stress mohr circle is useful for understanding the overall stress state and pore pressure changes, it does NOT directly gover the soil strength in the context of failure.
And total stress phi is...
Geotechguy1, first, thank you very much for responding to my messages... Appreciate it!
I'm still confused about how/why to use a frictional parameter (phi) to characterize an undrained condition. I searched for an equation or relationship between SHANSEP and the M-C total stress envelope and...
Hi everyone, I hope you can help me answer these questions that have been bugging me for a while. For a fine grained material:
Is there an application of the total stress friction angle (say from a CUT)? What does this relationship or line (phi and c) represent? Is this line related to the...
