07-Str-A3
Worked solutions to 8 past sittings (2013–2016), 48 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.
Topics across the sittings
Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.
- Flow net (4 sittings): May 2016 Q5 · December 2014 Q5 · May 2014 Q5 · May 2013 Q5
- Each to be justified (2 sittings): May 2016 Q1 · Undated paper Q2
- Five statements (2 sittings): May 2016 Q1 · Undated paper Q2
- Seepage (2 sittings): December 2014 Q3 · May 2013 Q5
- True/False with Justification (2 sittings): December 2013 Q1 · May 2013 Q1
Questions by sitting
May 2016
- Question 1: Five statements, each to be justified
- Question 2: At-rest, active and passive lateral earth pressure
- Question 3: Settlement of a structure founded on peat
- Question 4: Increase in vertical stress below the corner of a condominium raft
- Question 5: Flow net and effective stress at a cut-off wall
- Question 6: Angle of shearing resistance from a drained triaxial series
December 2015
- Question 1: Five statements with justification
- Question 2: Choice of shear strength tests and samples for an earth dam
- Question 3: Effective stress in a clay layer over an artesian sand
- Question 4: Stress increase under the corner of a loaded frame
- Question 5: Water needed in a cut to prevent base uplift
- Question 6: Undrained strength beneath a staged embankment
May 2015
- Question 1: Short-answer statements with justification
- Question 2: Shear-strength testing for an oil tank on saturated clay
- Question 3: Rate of consolidation at two clay thicknesses
- Question 4: Vertical stress increase beneath a footing with an opening
- Question 5: Rankine active pressure on a layered, partly submerged backfill
- Question 6: Pore pressure and Skempton coefficients from a CU triaxial test
December 2014
- Question 1: Index behaviour, compaction and stress history
- Question 2: The three limiting lateral earth pressures
- Question 3: Seepage and the stability of a homogeneous earth dam
- Question 4: Stress increase below the corner of a courtyard raft
- Question 5: Flow net and seepage past a cut-off wall
- Question 6: CU triaxial test on a saturated clay
May 2014
- Question 1: Multiple Choice with Justification
- Question 2: The Three Limit Lateral Earth Pressures
- Question 3: Consolidation Time Scaling from Laboratory to Field
- Question 4: Vertical Stress Beneath a Ring Footing by Two Methods
- Question 5: Flow Net and Seepage Beneath a Dam with a Cut-off Wall
- Question 6: Shear Strength Parameters from a CU Triaxial Series
December 2013
- Question 1: True/False with Justification
- Question 2: Phase Relations for a Compacted Sample
- Question 3: Dry Side and Wet Side of Optimum
- Question 4: Elastic Stress Distribution and Stress Increase under a Footing
- Question 5: Consolidation, Seepage Heads and Artesian Effective Stress
- Question 6: Consolidated-Drained Triaxial Series and the Modified Failure Envelope
May 2013
- Question 1: True/False with Justification
- Question 2: Effective Stress under Undrained and Drained Loading
- Question 3: Grain-Size Distribution, Gradation and Permeability
- Question 4: Vertical Stress Increase by Superposition
- Question 5: Flow Net, Seepage and Stability of a Cutoff Wall
- Question 6: Stress Profile with Capillary Rise and Consolidation Settlement
Undated paper
- Question 1: Ten multiple-choice items
- Question 2: Five statements, each to be justified
- Question 3: Stress increase beneath the centre of a square footing
- Question 4: Consolidation test — $e$–log $\sigma'$ curve, preconsolidation pressure and $C_c$
- Question 5: Seepage through a flow net around a sheet pile cut-off
- Question 6: Consolidated-undrained triaxial series — effective and total strength parameters