Question: A specimen prepared from an undisturbed sample ( assume perfect sampling ) obtained from a saturated normally consolidated clayey soil deposit when tested in unconfined

A specimen prepared from an undisturbed sample (assume perfect sampling) obtained from a saturated normally consolidated clayey soil deposit when tested in unconfined compression resulted in a deviator stress at failure of 455kPa. The testing work conducted on the same soil from another series of consolidated undrained triaxial (CU) tests yielded the following: effective friction angle (')=30; Skempton's pore water pressure parameter at failure (Af)=1.0. Incorporating the idea of Mohr circle at failure, for the unconfined compression test, determine:
(a) the effective stress of the sample at the beginning of the test.
(b) the pore water pressure at the beginning of the test.
(c) the pore water pressure at failure.
(d) the estimated effective overburden stress in the field soil deposit.
A specimen prepared from an undisturbed sample (

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