Mechanical Effects of Solid Water on the Particle Skeleton of Soil: Mechanism Analysis

Figure 5

Illustration of a cube-tank system with constant water pressure and nongravity: (a) the water tank with a suspended cube (water-cube contact), (b) the water pressure on the suspended cube surface, (c) the water tank with a contacted cube (tank-cube contact), and (d) the water and contact pressures on the contacted cube surface.

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