Everywhere I have read so far uses the beta method to calculate the skin friction. This provides a result such as 60H psf where H is the depth of pile. I have seen in some reports where the skin friction value is provided as 300 psf. How is this correlation made? Please help.
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I have a unique situation where I am building a house by cutting into a hillside for my building pad. The backside will be a near vertical cut in rock and there are two retaining walls that will be almost stacked on top of each other. See image.
How do I determine the lateral...
My question is when do we use the horizontal seismic load for base shear in a slope stability problem and when do we not. I believe using it generally decreases your factor of safety. There is an option in SLOPE/W that asks whether I want to use it or not. Please respond asap!!
Per ASTM 3080, it states that the displacement rate should be equal to df/tf where df is the estimated horizontal displacement at failure and tf is the total elapsed time to failure. The total elapsed time to failure, tf, is equal to 50t50 where t50 is the time required to acheive 50 percent...
We are looking to try Shelby tube sampling for our firm, however I can only find 3 inch shelby tubes. All of our machines are for 2.5 inch CD samples. How do I get the 3 inch sample into the 2.5 inch machines without disturbing the sample? Or is there another place other than Humboldt that I can...
We are trying to conduct the constant head permeability test in the lab. However, the head is not the same when a tube is connected to the outlet drain and the tube is raised or lowered. Now I have looked everywhere and I cant find where the tube outlet should be placed with respect to the...
