Soil-mechanics Questions Set 49:
Soil transported by wind is called
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What property of soil is the compression index used to determine?
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What is the value of Earth pressure when a tensile crack is generated?
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Water in the soil that is held against gravity is also known as
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When the product of rock weathering is not transported as sediment but remains in place, is called
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If the Mohr circle for a given state of stress lies entirely below the Mohr envelop for a soil, then how will be the soil for that state of stress.
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Principle involved in the relationship between submerged unit weight and saturated weight of a soil based on
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Sensitivity of soil is due to:
a. Permanent destruction of soil solids upon remolding.
b. Reorientation of water molecules in the adsorbed layer of soil solids.
Which of these statements are true?
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Which of the following statements is/are true regarding the Group index of soil?
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A 4m thick layer of normally consolidated clay has an average void ratio of 1.30. Its compression index is 0.6 and coefficient of consolidation is 1 m/year. If the increase in vertical pressure due to foundation load on the clay layer is equal to the existing effective overburden pressure, the change in the thickness of the clay layer is ____ (round off to two decimal places) mm.
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