The major principal stress in an element of cohesionless soil within the backfill of a retaining wall is________________?
Rankine’s theory of earth pressure assumes that the back of the wall is_______________?
The angle that Coulomb’s failure envelope makes with the horizontal is called________________?
In the triaxial compression test, the application of additional axial stress (i.e. deviator stress) on the soil specimen produces shear stress on__________________?
During the first stage of triaxial test when the cell pressure is increased from 0.10 N/mm2 to 0.26 N/mm2, the pore water pressure increases from 0.07 N/mm2 to 0.15 “N/mm2. Skempton’s pore pressure parameter B is___________________?
The coefficient of active earth pressure for a loose sand having an angle of internal friction of 30° is___________________?
Sensitivity of a soil can be defined as___________________?
In a triaxial compression test when drainage is allowed during the first stage (i. e. application of cell pressure) only and not during the second stage (i.e. application of deviator stress at constant cell pressure), the test is known as__________________?
If the shearing stress is zero on two planes, then the angle between the two planes is________________?
If a cohesive soil specimen is subjected to a vertical compressive load, the inclination of the cracks to the horizontal is__________________?
