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This document discusses key concepts in soil mechanics including phase relationships, seepage/permeability, effective stress, and shear strength. It introduces the concept of effective stress, which was developed by Karl Terzaghi in the 1920s during his research on consolidation. Effective stress is defined as the difference between total stress and pore water pressure. It recognizes that soil deformation is a function of effective stresses rather than total stresses alone. Terzaghi is credited as developin

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Holly Acosta

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