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The document outlines key concepts related to the shear strength of soils, including its definition, influencing factors, and methods of determination. It discusses various failure criteria, differences in shear strength among soil types, and the importance of selecting appropriate testing methods for projects. Additionally, it addresses the distinctions between drained and undrained shear strengths and their applicable conditions.

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Key Concept

The document outlines key concepts related to the shear strength of soils, including its definition, influencing factors, and methods of determination. It discusses various failure criteria, differences in shear strength among soil types, and the importance of selecting appropriate testing methods for projects. Additionally, it addresses the distinctions between drained and undrained shear strengths and their applicable conditions.

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1. What is meant by the shear strength of soils?


2. What factors affect the shear strength?
3. How is shear strength determined?
4. What are the assumptions in the Coulomb, Tresca, Taylor, and Mohr–Coulomb
failure criteria?
5. Do soils fail on a plane?
6. What are the differences among peak, critical, and residual effective friction angles?
7. What are peak shear strength, critical shear strength, and residual shear strength?
8. Are there differences between the shear strengths of dense and loose sands, or
between normally consolidated and over consolidated clays?
9. What are the differences between drained and un-drained shear strengths?
10. Under what conditions should the drained shear strength or the un-drained shear
strength parameters are used?
11. What laboratory and field tests are used to determine shear strength?
12. What are the differences among the results of various laboratory and fi eld tests?
13. How do I know what laboratory test to specify for a project?

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