Shear Strength Deterioration of Compacted Residual Soils under a Wind Turbine due to Drying-Wetting Cycles and Vibrations

Figure 8

Failure mode of soil specimens with K = 0.98 and n = 0: (a) σ₃ = 20 kPa; (b) σ₃ = 40 kPa; (c) σ₃ = 60 kPa.

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