Direct Shear Test
1. The direct shear test is ideally suitable for conducting drained tests on which of the following?
2. The failure plane in a direct shear test is ____.
3. Direct shear test is also commonly referred to as the ____.
4. Which of the following represents the Mohr-Coulomb equation for shear strength (s) in terms of cohesion (c), normal stress (σ), and angle of internal friction (φ)?
5. In a direct shear test, the normal stress on the failure plane is ____ during the shearing process.
6. One major disadvantage of the direct shear test is:
7. For a purely cohesive soil (like saturated clay in undrained condition), the angle of internal friction (φ) is:
8. During the shearing of a dense sand in a direct shear test, the volume of the specimen:
9. If the shear stress at failure is plotted against the normal stress for multiple tests on the same soil, the intercept on the shear stress axis represents: