In materials science, a triaxial shear test is a common method to measure the mechanical properties of many deformable solids, especially soil (e.g.,...

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moment diagrams Shear rate Shear strain Shear strength Tensile stress Triaxial shear test Hibbeler, R.C. (2004). Mechanics of Materials. New Jersey USA: Pearson...

zones, is an example of this. Shearing in soil mechanics is measured with a triaxial shear test or a direct shear test. Shear strength Terzaghi, K., 1943...

failure modes. Amorphous metal Deformation (engineering) Triaxial shear test Adiabatic shear band Bigoni, D. Nonlinear Solid Mechanics: Bifurcation Theory...

Soil mechanics Soil stabilization Subsidence Triaxial shear test Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shear strength (soil). Heyman, J. (1972), Coulomb's...

for test on discontinuities. Geotechnical investigation Shear strength (discontinuity) Tilt test (geotechnical engineering) Triaxial shear test Bardet...

Thixotropy is a time-dependent shear thinning property. Certain gels or fluids that are thick or viscous under static conditions will flow (become thinner...

the laboratory using direct shear test, triaxial shear test, simple shear test, fall cone test and (hand) shear vane test; there are numerous other devices...

In most cases, the rupture speed approaches, but does not exceed, the shear wave (S wave) velocity of the surrounding rock. There are a few exceptions...

test ASTM D2166. This test compresses a soil sample to measure its strength. The modifier "unconfined" contrasts this test to the triaxial shear test...

stretched clay lumps (a phenomenon called boudinage) and zones of concentrated shear. Debris flow deposits take the form of long, narrow tracks of very poorly...

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monitoring wells or piezometers. Samples collected from boreholes are often tested in a laboratory to determine their physical properties, or to assess levels...

are often determined using some combination of field tests (e.g., aquifer tests) and laboratory tests on aquifer material samples. Recently, these properties...

amplitude shear strain. This is a soil test-based definition, usually performed via cyclic triaxial, cyclic direct simple shear, or cyclic torsional shear type...

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_{1}+\sigma _{2}+\sigma _{3}>0} This condition is favored by the presence of triaxial tensile stresses, a condition that exist in defects of bulky samples subjected...

This is essentially due to a decrease in the shear strength of the slope material, an increase in the shear stress borne by the material, or a combination...

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excavation depth. Slurry wall design is undertaken based on bending moment and shear envelope obtained from the stress analysis. In the design of such underground...

tests measure the "accessible void", the total amount of void space accessible from the surface (cf. closed-cell foam). There are many ways to test porosity...

 631. ISBN 0136427103. "ISO 14688-1:2002 – Geotechnical investigation and testing – Identification and classification of soil – Part 1: Identification and...

stability, and a narrow stem with graduations for measuring. The liquid to test is poured into a tall container, often a graduated cylinder, and the hydrometer...

non-invasive technique, which is widely used in practice to detect the shear wave velocity profile of the soil. The SASW method relies on the dispersive...

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A sieve analysis (or gradation test) is a practice or procedure used in geology, civil engineering, and chemical engineering to assess the particle size...

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Laboratory tests using soil samples subjected to hydraulic experiments Field tests (on site, in situ) that are differentiated into: small-scale field tests, using...