In: Civil Engineering
(A) What Type of Analysis (e.g. Consolidated-Drained
(CD), or Consolidated-Undrained(CU) or Unconsolidated-Undrained
(UU))? BRIEFLY EXPLAIN WHY and(B) What Type of Failure Envelope
would you pick for the Cases (a) and (b) shown below? BRIEFLY
EXPLAIN WHY
Case (a): A new footing is founded in Unsaturated Loose Sand
(Contractive Soil).Case (b): An existing dam is founded on Dense
Silt (Dilative Soil). Then the dam is
suddenly shaken and sheared by an Earthquake.