Thursday, July 31, 2014

Plane survey







This mark is done by the city of Portland.  The crew was moving on moving the street car track near PSU Campus. 

Friday, May 30, 2014

Shear Soil



The only thing to fear is shear itself.
Don't fear the shear.  Soils lab from yesterday.  The shear line is almost a perfect example of what is suppose to happen.   
We are getting into Mohr-Coulomb_theory .
http://www4.hcmut.edu.vn/~cnan/Principles%20of%20geotechnical%20engineering%20%28Fifth%20Edition,%20Das%29/311-363.PDF

Direct shear lab:  http://1drv.ms/1hjYPr6 homework 8:  http://1drv.ms/1o7QtkT

Text book examples:  tex book .PDF