{"id":159824,"date":"2023-09-18T12:54:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T07:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=159824"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:54:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T07:24:57","slug":"at-a-construction-site-a-contractor-plans-to-make-an-excavation-as-shown-in-the-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/at-a-construction-site-a-contractor-plans-to-make-an-excavation-as-shown-in-the-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"At a construction site, a contractor plans to make an excavation as shown in the figure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. At a construction site, a contractor plans to make an excavation as shown in the figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-920.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159826\" style=\"width:439px;height:211px\" width=\"439\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-920.png 764w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-920-300x145.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The water level in the adjacent river is at an elevation of +20.0 m. Unit weight of water is 10 kN\/m<sup>3<\/sup>. The factor of safety (up to two decimal places) against sand boiling for the proposed excavation is <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ans: 1.00 &#8211; 1.03<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sol:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0For Quicksand condition, effective stress in the soil becomes zero (\u03c3 = 0) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the bottom of the soil column,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"497\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-921.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-921.png 497w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-921-300x275.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. At a construction site, a contractor plans to make an excavation as shown in the figure. The water level in the adjacent river is at an elevation of +20.0 m. Unit weight of water is 10 kN\/m3. The factor of safety (up to two decimal places) against sand boiling for the proposed excavation is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":159828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5141],"tags":[5140],"class_list":["post-159824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gate","tag-gate-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159829,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159824\/revisions\/159829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}