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Shear strength of soil is the internal resistance per

unit area that the soil mass can offer to resist


failure and sliding along any plane inside it.

The shear strength of soil may be attributed to


three basic components:
1. Frictional resistance to sliding between solid
particles
2. Cohesion and adhesion between particles
3. Interlocking and bridging of solid particles to
resist deformation
MOHR – COULOMB FAILURE CRITERIA
A material fails because of a critical
combination of normal stress and shearing stress,
and not from either maximum normal or shear
stress alone. This theory was presented by Mohr.
For most soil mechanics problem, Coulomb
suggested that the shear stress on the failure
plane can be expressed as a linear function of
normal stress.
This relationship is known as Mohr-Coulomb
Failure Criteria.
major principal stress, max
normal stress, normal stress until
failure occur, axial stress at failure,
maximum added stress

or deviator stress, plunger


stress, axial stress, compressive
stress, added stress
minor principal stress,
minimum normal stress, cell
pressure, chamber confining
stress/chamber pressure, confining
pressure, all around pressure, tri-
axial pressure, radial stress,
consolidation pressure, lateral
pressure
normal stress at failure point
shear stress at failure point
R = radius (maximum shear stress)
c = cohesion
μ = pore water pressure
Ø = angle of internal friction, angle of shearing
resistance, undrained friction angle
θ = angle of failure plane makes with the major
principal plane
Unconfined Compression Test

In an unconfined compressive strength test,


note that there will be no angle of internal
friction.

Where
Cu = Undrained shear strength
qu = unconfined compression strength
Terms to remember in plotting the Mohr Circle

a. Cohesive and Cohesionless


b. Unconfined and Confined
c. Unconsolidated and Consolidated
d. Drained (effective stresses) and Undrained
(total stresses)
e. **Unconfined Compressive

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