Question: Problem 3 ) ( 6 points ) You are hired as a geotechnical engineer. Your subcontractor ( a geotech lab firm ) performed 3 unconsolidated

Problem 3)(6 points) You are hired as a geotechnical engineer. Your subcontractor (a geotech lab firm) performed 3 unconsolidated undrained triaxial tests and 1 unconfined compression test on in total 4 in-situ clay samples, which were obtained from the same depth (10 ft below ground surface) during your geotech drilling program. The saturated unit weight of the clay is also determined in the same lab as 120 pcf . The ground water table during the geotech field investigation program was observed at the ground surface. If the first triaxial test had a cell pressure of 1000 psf and a major principial stress of 3000 psf at failure:
a) What is the deviatory stress at failure at the second triaxial test if the cell pressure for this test was 2000 psf ?(1 point) b) What is the minor principal stress at the third triaxial test if the major principal stress at failure for this test was 5000 psf ?(1 point) c) What is the undrained shear strength of this clay? (1 point) d) What is the expected unconfined compression pressure to fail the same in-situ clay during the performed unconfined compression test? (1 point) e) What is the sensitivity number of this clay, if a remolded sample is prepared from the same clay and an additional unconfined compression test was performed on the remolded sample, which showed an unconfined compression pressure of \(\mathrm{qu}=1000\mathrm{psf}\)?(1 point) f) What is the assumed OCR number of the in-situ clay (without the need of running a consolidation test), if the following equation can be used to estimate it for your preliminary design purposes? (1 point)
-\(\mathrm{Cu}=0.25\)* effective overburden stress * OCR
Cu : Undrained shear strength
For the questions a) to e) of Problem 3, use the conceptual thinking with the help of a not-to-scale Mohr's circle drawing only (like we did in the lecture 21). The use of any equation or scaling any value off the Mohr's circle will get no credit for the a) to e) portion of the problem.
Problem 3 ) ( 6 points ) You are hired as a

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