How would you recommend the shear strength be determined for the following design situations? Your answer can include both laboratory and field tests or, in some cases, no tests but some other design approach that may be appropriate. Be as specific as you can.
(a) Long-term stability of a compacted clay earth dam.
(b) Stability of a hydraulic fill sand dam under seismic loading.
(c) End of construction of a compacted clay earthfill dam.
(d) Foundation on a soft saturated normally consolidated clay.
(e) Shallow foundation on a loose dry sand.
(1) End of construction of an excavation in soft normally consolidated clay.
(g) Cut slope in an overconsolidated stiff fissured clay.
(h) Highway embankment on a stiff fissured clay.
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