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The current approaches and practices for determination of shear strength of soil that widely used in Malaysia is Mohr–Coulomb failure envelope theory. This theory states that the failure envelope is linear to the effective stress on the shear strength versus effective stress graph. The problem with this current approach when the linear envelope is produced and the shear strength at low stresses was extrapolated by the higher level of stresses. By applying the nonlinear method with a slight curve envelope when approaching the origin of the graph seems to show that the nonlinear failure envelope takes into consideration the value of shear strength at a very low level of stresses.
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Hampden, A.Z., Noor, M.J.M., Saffari, P., Hadi, B.A. (2016). The Shear Strength Characteristics of Kota Samarahan Sedimentary Soil. In: Yusoff, M., Hamid, N., Arshad, M., Arshad, A., Ridzuan, A., Awang, H. (eds) InCIEC 2015. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0155-0_28
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