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Week 8: Quiz #4
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Select the most appropriate answers to the following multiple-choice questions:

1. For sandy soils, the shear strength is
(a) directly proportional to the effective stress.
(b) directly proportional to the square of the effective stress.
(c) inversely proportional to the effective stress.
(d) inversely proportional to square of the effective stress. 
2. Which of the following triaxial tests is completed quickly?
(a) CD test.
(b) CU test.
(c) UU test.
(d) All of the above. 
3. If the unconfined compression strength of a clay is 100 kN/m2, its undrained shear strength will be
(a) 0.
(b) 50 kN/m2.
(c) 100 kN/m2.
(d) 200 kN/m2. 
4. On shear load application, which one of the following can increase in its size?
(a) Loose dry sand.
(b) Medium dry dense sand.
(c) Dense dry sand.
(d) None of the above. 
5. If the effective stress within a sandy soil mass is zero, its shear strength will be equal to
(a) zero.
(b) half of the effective stress cohesion.
(c) effective stress cohesion.
(d) tangent of the effective angle of internal friction. 
6. The concept of shear strength is not required directly to analyse the problems related to
(a) bearing capacity of foundations.
(b) stability of earth slopes.
(c) flow through the soil mass.
(d) lateral earth pressure from soils on retaining structures. 
7. The exploration cost should generally be
(a) 0.1 to 0.5%
(b) 1 to 2 %
(c) 1 to 5%
(d) 2 to 5%
of the cost of the structure. 
8. Shelby tube is
(a) a thin wall steel tube.
(b) used to obtain undisturbed clayey soil samples.
(c) sharpened at its bottom end.
(d) all of the above. 
9. Disturbed soil samples cannot be used for
(a) grain-size analysis.
(b) specific gravity of soil solids.
(c) hydraulic conductivity
(d) classification. 
10. If the numbers of blows required for the penetration of a split-spoon sampler into the soil deposit for three 152.4-mm
consecutive intervals are 8, 12 and 10, the standard penetration number (N) will be
(a) 18.
(b) 20.
(c) 22.
(d) 30

Answers:
1(a) 2(c) 3(b) 4(c) 5(a) 6(c) 7(a) 8(d) 9(c) 10(c)