This blog intends to help anyone preparing for PE exam or practicing in the area of geotechnical engineering. You are welcome to post your questions related to soil mechanics and I'll try to solve them. I am a senior-level professional geotechnical engineer currently based in Houston, TX. I started this blog in order to help anyone who is preparing for PE and/or has questions related to geotechnical engineering. I took my PE exam on April 2009 (and passed!).
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Shear Strength - Solution #2
The problem can also be solved using equations and I left it to you for exercise. I recommend using Mohr circle, it is faster and makes it easy to visualize stresses. Please let me know if you have questions.
I cannot provide a definitive answer for your question because I don't know. However, as long as the topic is in the syllabus, it is very likely that it may be asked. In my opinion, you won't need a graph paper to draw a mohr's circle. You should be able to do so on any paper provided you have a scale, a compass, and a protractor. In my solution above, I haven't used a graph paper.
Hello Geotechie,
ReplyDeleteDo you think that there would be problems in PE Exam which they would ask us to solve by drawing Mohrs circle? If so would they give us graph paper?
Thanks,
SD
I cannot provide a definitive answer for your question because I don't know. However, as long as the topic is in the syllabus, it is very likely that it may be asked. In my opinion, you won't need a graph paper to draw a mohr's circle. You should be able to do so on any paper provided you have a scale, a compass, and a protractor. In my solution above, I haven't used a graph paper.
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