Assignment #4:

PROBLEMA STABILITAS DALAM GEOTEKNIK (SI-5222)

Instructor : Prof. I Wayan Sengara, Ph.D.

1. A series of triaxial tests was carried out on a clay soil, the cell pressure in each being
constant at 200 kN/m2. The shear strength parameters were to be c’ = 0 and ’ = 24o.
(a) If, in the undrained test, the pore water pressure at failure was 124 kN/m 2, what was
the maximum deviatoric stress?
(b) If, in the consolidated-undrained test, the maximum deviator stress was 160 kN/m2,
what was the pore water pressure at failure?
(c) What was the maximum deviatoric stress in the drained test, if the back pressure was
kept constant at 80 kN/m2?

2. A cohesive soil is found to have undrained shear strength parameters of cu= 35 kN/m2,
and u= 17o.
(a) In an undrained triaxial test, a specimen of the soil failed at a total axial stress of 360
kN/m2. What was the cell pressure?
(b) What value for the undrained shear strength would be indicated by an unconfined
compression test on a specimen of this soil?

3. A specimen of a clay was fully consolidated under a cell pressure of 200 kN/m2 and then,
with the drainage valve closed, the cell pressure was raised to 400 kN/m 2. As the axial
load was increased the following data were recorded.

Deviatoric
stress 0 30 60 90 120 150 210 224(*)
(kN/m2)
Pore water
pressure 183 207 224 238 250 264 263 259
(kN/m2)
(*)
Failure

(a) Plot the effective and total stress paths.

(b) Compute pore water pressure parameters, Af and B.
(c) In another test on the same soil, the following values were recorded at failure: p’=
685 kN/m2 and q = 253 kN/m2. Plot the Kf-line and determine a’,  ‘, c’, and ‘.