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Question on typical engineering properties table 8-3.1 in UFC 3-220-01N

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tpk72

Civil/Environmental
Jul 3, 2006
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The referenced table provides typical shear strength of compacted soils by soil classification.

Footnote 2 states that strength characteristics are for effective strength envelopes.

For cohesive soils, the table provides the following values for CL soils:

CL: cohesion (as compacted): 1800 psf. cohesion (saturated): 270

Why is the cohesion as compacted so high? Is that meant to be total stress?
 
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