Soil Mechanics and Foundation
In the triaxial compression test, the application of additional axial stress (i.e. deviator stress) on the soil specimen produces shear stress on

horizontal plane only
all planes except horizontal and vertical planes
both horizontal and vertical planes
vertical plane only

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Soil Mechanics and Foundation
Which of the following statements is correct?

For a well graded soil, both uniformity coefficient and coefficient of curvature are nearly unity.
Uniformity coefficient represents the shape of the particle size distribution curve.
A soil is said to be well graded if it has most of the particles of about the same size
None of these

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