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    CENG 6207: Advanced Soil Mechanics

    Assignment Problems

    1. An isotropic compression test was conducted on a clay soil specimen that had a volume of 78 cm3 in a
    triaxial cell. The test was ended while it has a moisture content of 0.35 under a cell pressure of 80 kPa.
    The results of the test are given in the following Table. Determine the soil parameters.

    Cell pressure (kPa) Volume of


    expelled water cc
    30 0
    80 6.8
    220 14
    800 24
    240 21
    80 18

    2. The above sample was isotropically normally consolidated to a mean effective stress of 300 kN/m2 and
    the soil specific volume parameter that defines the position of the CSL with slope of 0.90 is 3.23. If the
    sample is subjected to a standard undrained triaxial compression test, calculate the deviatoric stress, the
    mean effective stress and specific volume at failure. Redo the problem if the test is drained at initial
    specific volume as obtained in the undrained test.

    3. Two specimens, A and B, of a clay were each isotropically consolidated under a cell pressure of 275 kPa
    and then unloaded isotropically to a mean effective stress of 150 kPa. CD and CU tests are carried out on
    A and B respectively. The cell pressure is held constant 150 kPa and the soil parameters are =0.321,
    =0.045, and initial void ratio is 1.21 and friction angle is 23o. N=3.32. Estimate, for each specimen,
    a) the yield stresses interms of the p-q and principal normal stress representations,
    b) the corresponding failure stresses for the problem in a,
    c) the excess pore water pressure at yield and failure.

    4. Two specimens from a soil characterized by M=1.05, =0.32, =0.045, and N=3.33 are isotropicaly
    normally consolidated in a triaxial apparatus to p’=200 kPa with no porewater pressure generation. After
    this each is subjected to a loading test in which the total axial stress is increased to 240 kPa with no
    change in the radial stress. If sample 1 is loaded drained and sample 2 is loaded undrained, estimate the
    volumetric and shear strains and the change in the pore pressure for each sample using Cam-clay theory.

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