Civil Engineering Reference
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Table 7.1
Basic data of the test specimens
transverse compression is assumed to be a function of
a/h
ratio, the magnitude
of the transverse compression may be changed individually for each group to
see its effect on the calculated shear strength. The non-dimensionalised factor
K,
which varies from approximately 1.6 to 0 as calculated from Eqn (7.12), is
taken as the benchmark value and a variation of
K,
designated as
D
K,
is
introduced up to ±0.25 (
Figure 7.7)
.
The resulting variation of the calculated
