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Why are experiments on scale models with soil performed in a centrifuge?
The behaviour of soil is strongly stress dependent. Therefore small scale tests at normal
gravity are not very useful. The stress dependent behaviour is most clearly visible in clay
models. If small scale models are made of natural clay that the size and so the self weight
stresses are decreased. However, the cohesion is still the same. This means that the shear
stresses are much too low to cause failure.
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This page has last been edited 9 January 1998 by h.allersma@CT.TUDelft.nl.