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100.0
For cohesionless soils this test must be performed in a triaxial cell or shear box. For
these soils the drained shear strength parameter (/>' is obtained, even if the soil is saturated,
50.0
unless the test is performed at an unrealistic rate of speed with a sample so fine-grained it
has a very low coefficient of permeability k.
0.0 Sometimes clay samples are put in a triaxial cell, a cell pressure is applied, and the
0.0 100.0 200.0 compression
300.0 is 400.0
done immediately.
500.0 This
600.0procedure
700.0 is not recommended because of the time
-50.0 involved and additional sample disturbance produced.
s (kPa)
2. Consolidated-undrained (CU) tests. The sample is consolidated with drain lines open until
no further drainage occurs (it has consolidated). The drain lines are then closed, and the
sample is tested to failure (undrained). In cohesive soils this test generally produces both
a cohesion intercept c and a cf> angle that is intermediate between 0 and </>' depending on
the degree of saturation S.
The test may be given a designation based on the type of cell consolidation pressure
used:
I = isotropic (constant all around, as usually obtained in the triaxial cell)
K0 = consolidated with some vertical pressure and with lateral pressure set to an estimate
of the field value of Koav. This test requires special equipment and is seldom done.
A = anisotropically consolidated (vertical not same as lateral but lateral is not Kocrv)
These types of consolidation give a test designation as CIUC (consolidated isotropically
and undrained compression) or CK^UE (consolidated to K0 and tested in undrained ex-