A triaxial shear test is a common method to measure the mechanical properties of many deformable solids, especially soil (e.g., sand, clay) and rock,...

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

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

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

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...

easily identified using X-ray diffraction rather than chemical or physical tests. Varve (or varved clay) is clay with visible annual layers that are formed...

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...

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

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

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

Compressive Strength (UCS) Triaxial Compression test Cohesion C Direct Shear (Cohesion Intercept C) Relative Density Consolidation Test (initial void ratio,...

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

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the vadose zone to be deposited in pore space. ASTM American Standard of Testing Materials: 200 sieve – 0.005 mm. USDA United States Department of Agriculture...

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...

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

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...

characteristics Multiphase fluid flow in porous media Florida Method of Test For Concrete Resistivity as an Electrical Indicator of its Permeability Archived...

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the thickness of the infill and height of asperities. Direct shear test Triaxial shear test Hoek, E.; Bray, J. (1974). Rock slope engineering. London: Institute...

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...

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

mechanics, stress triaxiality is the relative degree of hydrostatic stress in a given stress state. It is often used as a triaxiality factor, T.F, which...

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...

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

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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construction of a new test well, it is considered best practice to invest in a complete battery of chemical and biological tests on the well water in question...

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...