Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
12, 1975
Z . EISENSTEIN
Depctrttnent of'Cild Et~gineeritlg,The University ofAlhertn, Edmorzton, Alberta T6G 2G7
Received June 2, 1975
Accepted June 9, 1975
RICHARD
H . G. PARRY
Engineering Depurttnent, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England CB2 IPZ
Received July 3, 1975
Accepted July 11, 1975
strain laws. Once stress-strain laws are assumed then the methods proposed in the paper
to determine the stress-strain characteristics
and strengths become, to some extent, inbred.
If there were no other reasonably straightforward methods for determining tensile stressstrain characteristics for soils, then perhaps
the use of the Brazilian test as proposed by the
authors would be understandable. But, in fact,