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Triaxial Compression Tests on Soils Using Variable Lateral Pressure

Meese, Richard H.
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Instructor in General Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.

Long, Richard W.
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Instructor in General Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.

Pages: 4    Published: Jan 1960

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Abstract

Triaxial compression tests were made on a sand, with the chamber pressure varied in one series of tests and held constant in another series. Similarities in strength and some aspects of the stress-strain relationships suggest that a single variable-pressure test may supply essentially the same information as a series of conventional constant-pressure tests. These test results are analyzed and brief references are made to techniques of different forms of variable pressure tests that have been used on other materials.