Accession Number:
AD0163506
Title:
Soil Shearing Machine.
Descriptive Note:
Patent,
Corporate Author:
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY WASHINGTON D C
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1970-02-10
Pagination or Media Count:
3.0
Abstract:
The invention relates to a device for direct shear testing of earthen samples. The device of this invention is designed to measure a reversible shear in samples such as shales, which are of a less pliable nature and fracture along an irregular face. The device includes a vertically loaded test sample which may be subjected to a measured horizontal shearing force, rotated 180 degrees, and subjected to the same force in the opposite direction. Author
Descriptors:
Subject Categories:
- Soil Mechanics
- Test Facilities, Equipment and Methods