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"The Measurement of Soil Properties in the Triaxial Test, Contents: Part I. The Role of Soil Testing; 2. The Principle of Effective Stress; 3. The Pore-Pressure Parameters A and B; 4. Types of Triaxial Test; 5. The Application of the Triaxial Test to the Solution of Engineering Problems; 6. General Remarks on the Advantates and Limitations of the Triaxial Test. Part II. Principal Features of the Triaxial Apparatus: Details of: 1. The Triaxial Cells for 1 and half-in. and 4-in. diameter Samples; 2. Apparatus for Controlling the Cell Pressure; 3. Apparatus for Measuring Pore Pressure; 4. Apparatus for Measuring Volume Change; 5. Loading Systems; and 6. The Use of Side Drains. Part III. Standard Tests: 1. Preparation of Samples; 2. Undrained Tests; 3. Consolidated-Undrained Tests; 4. Drained Tests; 5. Pore-Pressure and Dissipation Tests; 6. Tests with No Lateral Strain (Ko-tests). Part IV. Special Tests: 1. Drained Tests on Saturated Clays with ---1 Constant and ---3 Decreasing; 2. Undrained Tests on Partly Saturated Soils with ---1 Constant and ---3 Decreasing; 3. Tests in which Failure is Caused by Increasing the Pore Pressure; 4. Extension Tests; 5. Anisotropic Consolidation; 6. Measurement of the Pore-Pressure Ratio B under the Condition of Controlled Stress Ratio; 7. Measurement of the Pore-pressure Ration B under Conditions Corresponding to Rapid Drawdown; 8. Constant-Volume Tests; 9. Tests to Determine the True Cohesion and True Angle of Internal Friction. Appendices: 1. Correction for Strength of Rubber Membrane and Drains; 2. Proving-Ring Characteristics; 3. Friction on the Loading Ram; 4. Rates of Testing; 5. Correction for Air Trapped between Sample and Rubber Membrane. Bibliography: Manufacturers of Equipment: Index. Conversion Factors." [from the front flap]

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #5805798 in Books
• Published on: 1957
• Binding: Hardcover
• 190 pages

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Practical Detail Which Experience Has Shown To Be Important
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This book is therefore restricted to a treatment of the triaxial test alone, and of the ways of meeting the various problems which arise in its use in the laboratory.
It cannot be repeated too often that the results are of practical significance only if the geology of the site is understood and if the samples are truly representative of the natural strata or fill, but it is outside the scope of the present treatment to elaborate on this theme.

The book is devided into four parts (as it is as product detail, or editor reviews)....

This book is not intended to serve as a manual.

Its purpose is to explain the significant factors in the various types of triaxial test, and to draw attention to matters of PRACTICAL DETAIL WHICH EXPERIENCE HAS SHOWN TO BE INPORTANT.
The authors have drawn primarily on the experience of the Soil Mechanics Laboratory at Imperial College...."
[from the book of the preface by A. W. B., and D. J. H., Imperial College, 1957, except the (as it is as product detail, or editor reviews)]