Components of Pore Water Pressure and their Engineering Significance

Pore fluid pressures that develop within soil masses as a result of both mechanical and physico-chemical effects influence the magnitude of the intergranular or effective stresses. The intergranular stresses control, in many cases, soil behavior in shear and compression. The physical significance of pore water pressure in a cohesive soil is examined in terms of several components which combine to give the total pressure. An analysis of fluid pressures at various points within a soil mass based on a condition of no flow at equilibrium shows that changes in any one component of the total pressure from point to point are offset by changes in other components.

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