Soil Mechanics and Foundation
Direct measurement of permeability of the specimen at any stage of loading can be made

only in fixed ring type consolido-meter
None of these
both (A) and (B)
only in floating ring type consolido-meter

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Soil Mechanics and Foundation
Sensitivity of a soil can be defined as

None of these
ratio of volume of voids to volume of solids
ratio of compressive strength of unconfined undisturbed soil to that of soil in a remoulded state
percentage of volume change of soil under saturated condition

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Soil Mechanics and Foundation
A tri-axial shear test is preferred to direct shear test, because

It can be performed under all three drainage conditions with complete control
None of these
Precise measurement of pore pressure and change in volume during test, is not possible
Stress distribution on the failure plane, is non uniform

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