Laboratory Investigation and Modelling of the Thermal-Mechanical Properties of Soil in Shallow Mineralized Groundwater Area

Figure 6

The relationship between shear strength and salt concentrations under different moisture contents and different vertical stresses (ASSI: average shear strength increment with the salt concentration increasing from 0 mol/kg to 6 mol/kg under the same vertical stress).

(a) NaCl

(b) CaCl₂