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hat it might be of interest to this group. BASIC IDEA The basic idea behind this technique makes fulluse of the shape of the normal pressure void ratiocurve for a soil. Fig. 1 (b) shows typical pressurevoid ratio curves plotted on a semilogarithmic plot.The semilogarithmic plot is usually used for… … create a false impression of the nature of the data.On Fig. 1 (a) the same data as shown on Fig. 1 (b)are converted to an arithmetic scale. This plotgives a clearer picture of what is happening asthe soil specimen is loaded. At the start of thetest the curve is quite flat to about % tons per sq.ft.…
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