A soil mass' compressibility, deformation, and strength depend on effort required to distort or displace particles or groups of particles relative to each other. Soils exhibit a wide range of properties because of the stress dependencies of the state. Relationships between stress and volume change, stress and stiffness, stress and strength can be expressed in terms of definable soil parameters.
A soil mass' compressibility, deformation, and strength depend on effort required to distort or displace particles or groups of particles relative to each other. Soils exhibit a wide range o…