Soil Mechanics and Foundation
In the triaxial compression test, the application of additional axial stress (i.e. deviator stress) on the soil specimen produces shear stress on

all planes except horizontal and vertical planes
horizontal plane only
both horizontal and vertical planes
vertical plane only

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Soil Mechanics and Foundation
Which of the following statements is correct?

None of these
Uniformity coefficient represents the shape of the particle size distribution curve.
For a well graded soil, both uniformity coefficient and coefficient of curvature are nearly unity.
A soil is said to be well graded if it has most of the particles of about the same size

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Soil Mechanics and Foundation
Quick sand is a

flow condition occurring in cohesionless soils
type of sand
flow condition occurring in both cohesive and cohesionless soils
flow condition occurring in cohesive soils

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Soil Mechanics and Foundation
In a triaxial compression test when drainage is allowed during the first stage (i. e. application of cell pressure) only and not during the second stage (i.e. application of deviator stress at constant cell pressure), the test is known as

unconsolidated drained test
consolidated undrained test
unconsolidated undrained test
consolidated drained test

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