Discussion of 'Re-examination of Undrained Strength at Atterberg Limits Water Contents' By H. B. Nagaraj, A. Sridharan, and H. M. Mallikarjuna

摘要

A thorough reading of the paper under discussion has been done. On the writers observations from literature that the undrained shear strengths observed at liquid limit by both the percussion and cone methods vary widely the discusser wishes to state the following points: Conventionally, liquid limit has been defined as the water content at which a clay is practically liquid but possesses a certain small (presumably the smallest) shearing strength that is possible to measure by a standardized procedure (Taylor 1948): thus originated the strength-based tests.