//This figure shows a very small interaction force when the pore-fluid and the clay particles have

the
same value of dielectric constant (4.0). As the dielectric con- stant for the pore-fluid becomes
different from that of the clay particles as a result of either increasing or decreasing its value, the net
interaction force becomes increasingly positive. The effect of the electrostatic force is to decrease
the attraction at higher values of dielectric constant. It was hypothesized that as the interparticle
attraction force increases, parameters reflecting

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636 C. A. MOORE AND J. K. MRCHELL the resistance of the soil to deformation should also increase.
To test this hypothesis activa- tion energy determinations, vane shear tests, and triaxial tests were
performed on kaolinite//