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... and are routinely used to complement the sampling program. However, the conventional practice is to directly evaluate the in-situ undrained shear strength using an assumed or fitted bearing factor, Nkt. The hybrid cavity-expansion and critical state theory establishes the relationship between OCR and piezocone...

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