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The shear strength of a soil mass is the internal resistance per unit area that the soil mass can offer to resist failure and sliding along any plane inside it. The safety of any geotechnical structure is dependent on the strength of the soil.
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SHEAR STRENGTH Various methods are available for laboratory mea-surement of shear strength. The simple methods are designed to determine the shear strength of a sample in a particular state, such as the water con-tent of the soil in situ. These methods are most often used to determine the undrained shear strength (sn) of saturated cohesive soils.
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In soil mechanics, shear strength refers to the magnitude of the shear stress the soil can sustain. The shear strength is exceeded when the interlocking particles can no longer resist the force exerted upon them; at this point the particles slide past each other, creating a slip plane, as illustrated above. The
Shear Strength of Soil. 2004 Brooks/Cole Publishing / Thomson LearningTM. Direct shear test in sand: (a) schematic diagram of test equipment; (b) plot of test results to obtain the friction angle φ’.
Period #24: Shear Strength of Soils (IV) A. Review and Motivation •The Mohr−Coulomb shear strength model for soils is of the form: |τf| = c + σ′ntan(φD) where: | τf | is the absolute value of shear stress that causes failure on a given plane; c ≥ 0 is the cohesion of the soil;
Determine the shear strength of soils. Understand the difference between drained and undrained shear strength. Determine the type of shear test that best simulates field conditions. Interpret laboratory and field test results to obtain shear strength parameters.
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The standard practice is to determine shear strength of cohesive soils in the field based on measurements with torvane, pocket penetrometer, or vane shear. It is not acceptable to use SPT correlations to determine shear strength or to assign consistency values.
