Measured Contact Pressure Below Raft Supporting a Stiff Building: Closure

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this curve with more confidence than at one tests reported in the paper verify that this is point on it, particularly when specimen uniapproximately so. A , . iorrnity and stability, by the time this point FRYDMAN, S. 1974. Yielding of sand in plane strain. Proc. has been reached, are questionable' The authors A.S.C.E., J. Geotech. Eng. Div., May (In press). see no basic justification for the writer's subJAM,,, A. K. 1967. Correspondence on energy compomission regarding the constancy of tan (p, . nents during the triaxial cell and direct shear tests. Inspection of the yield relation, in any of its Geotechnique, l7 (3), pp. 290-292. 1971. Triaxial extension tests .on hollow cylinder forms presented in the paper, shows s a n d specimens. Can. Geotech. J. 8(1), pp. 119-133. that tan 4, may remain as a R o s c o ~ , K. H., SCHOFIELD, A. N., and THURAIRAJAH, A. infinitely many simultaneous variations of 1963. Yielding of clays in states wetter than critical.