{"id":160024,"date":"2023-09-20T14:33:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T09:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=160024"},"modified":"2023-09-20T14:33:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T09:03:59","slug":"the-total-horizontal-and-vertical-stresses-at-a-point-x-in-a-saturated-sandy-medium-are-170-kpa-and-300-kpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/the-total-horizontal-and-vertical-stresses-at-a-point-x-in-a-saturated-sandy-medium-are-170-kpa-and-300-kpa\/","title":{"rendered":"The total horizontal and vertical stresses at a point X in a saturated sandy medium are 170 kPa and 300 kPa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. The total horizontal and vertical stresses at a point X in a saturated sandy medium are 170 kPa and 300 kPa, respectively. The static pore-water pressure is 30 kPa. At failure, the excess pore-water pressure is measured to be 94.50 kPa, and the shear stresses on the vertical and horizontal planes passing through the point X are zero. Effective cohesion is 0 kPa and effective angle of internal friction is 36\u00b0. The shear strength (in kPa, up to two decimal places) at point X is \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ans: 51.50 &#8211; 53.50<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sol:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Effective angle of internal friction = \u03d5 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critical shear plane = \u03b1 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vertical stresses = \u03c31 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Horizontal stress = \u03c32 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normal Stress = \u03c3n <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excess pore-water pressure = u<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"355\" height=\"273\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-78.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-160025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-78.png 355w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-78-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. The total horizontal and vertical stresses at a point X in a saturated sandy medium are 170 kPa and 300 kPa, respectively. The static pore-water pressure is 30 kPa. At failure, the excess pore-water pressure is measured to be 94.50 kPa, and the shear stresses on the vertical and horizontal planes passing through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":160026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5141],"tags":[5140],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-160024","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\/160024","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=160024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160027,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160024\/revisions\/160027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160024"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=160024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}