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CLASS ROOM ACTIVITY -02

Student Name: ___________________________ Student ID: ______________
1. Pore-water pressure:

2. Effective stress:

3. Draw pressure distribution diagram for a homogenous soil given below:

4. In the presence of ground water, list out the corresponding in-situ stresses.

Geo-Technology 1, CIVL0009
Department of Civil Engineering, Analysis of stresses in a soil mass.
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5. A 5m layer of sand of saturated unit weight 22 kN/m3 overlies an 8m layer

of clay of saturated unit weight 26 kN/m3. If the ground water level occurs
within the sand at 3m below the ground surface, determine the total and
effective stresses acting at the center of the clay layer. Take the unit of the
sand above the GWT level to be 18 kN/m3.
a) Draw the free body diagram.
b) Calculate the stresses and pore water pressure.
c) Determine the total and effective vertical stresses acting at the Bottom
of the clay layer

Geo-Technology 1, CIVL0009
Department of Civil Engineering, Analysis of stresses in a soil mass.