Browsing 2006 Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Likos, William J."
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Tensile strength, shear strength, and effective stress for unsaturated sand
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)It is generally accepted in geotechnical engineering that non-cohesive materials such as sands exhibit no or negligible tensile strength. However, there is significant evidence that interparticle forces arising from capillary ...