Civil Engineering Surveying · Geotechnical Engineering
In Terzaghi's general shear failure theory for a strip footing, the downward movement (sinking) of the elastic wedge (Zone I) pushes the adjacent soil into:
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- 1two zones of elastic equilibrium at Zone II and Zone III
- 2radial shear zone at Zone II and passive Rankine zone at Zone III✓
- 3plastic equilibrium only at Zone II
- 4radial shear zone at Zone III and passive Rankine zone at Zone II
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radial shear zone at Zone II and passive Rankine zone at Zone III
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