Module 6 : Shear Strength of Unsaturated Soils

Lecture 5: Measurement of Bishop’s effective stress parameter

 

 

 

Assuming that the saturated strength parameters are valid at any degree of saturation, the Eq #6.8 is used to obtain the effective stress parameter under various degree of saturation. The computed data is tabulated below

The relationship between matric suction and effective stress parameter is presented in the Fig. 6.23.

Fig. 6.23 Relation between effective stress parameter with degree of saturation for the example problem 6.2