Recent questions tagged quicksand-condition

A soil has dry unit weight of $15.5\: kN/m^3$, specific gravity of $2.65$ and degree of saturation of $72\: %.$ Considering the unit weight of water as $10\: kN/m^3$, the...

In a soil specimen, the total stress, effective stress, hydraulic gradient and critical hydraulic gradient are $\sigma, \: \sigma’$, $i$ and $i_c$, respectively. For init...