Abstract
Abstract From a series of direct shear and laboratory vane shear tests conducted on natural pelagic and terrigenous marine soils, we have proposed a combined shear test procedure that involves obtaining the total stress failure envelope from tests on only two submarine soil samples. On one of the samples, both the direct shear and vane tests are conducted at zero normal stress. The second soil sample is consolidated under normal stress σn greater than the precompression stress Pc and sheared in a direct shear device under normal stress equal to the above consolidation pressure σn , the laboratory vane shear test on the same sample is conducted under zero normal stress. The combined test program results in four datum points (two from direct shear and two from laboratory vane shear tests. By connecting the two vane test datum points, the cohesion line (the failure envelope corresponding to vane shear tests) is obtained. By connecting the direct shear test datum points (from the soil consolidated under cn > ...
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