On wetting, cohesive soils,

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• Cohesive soils are generally
• For better strength and stability, the fine grained soils and coarse grained soils are compacted respectively as
• In active state of plastic equilibrium in a non cohesive soil with horizontal ground surface
• Contact pressure beneath a rigid footing resting on cohesive soil is
• Pick up the cohesive soil from the following:
• If a cohesive soil specimen is subjected to a vertical compressive load, the inclination of the cracks to the horizontal is
• In non-cohesive soil in passive state of plastic equilibrium
• A 300 mm square bearing plate settles by 15 mm in a plate load test on a cohesive soil when the intensity of loading is 0.2 N/mm². The settlement of a prototype shallow footing 1 m square under the same intensity of loading is
• If S, L and R are the arc length, long chord and radius of the sliding circle then the perpendicular distance of the line of the resultant cohesive force, is given by
• If the cohesive force (c), is 1.5 t/m2, the density ) of the soil is 2.0 t/m3, factor of safety (F) is 1.5 and stability factor (Sn) is 0.05, the safe height of a slope is