REGULARITIES IN THE SHEAR BEHAVIOUR OF PLEISTOCENE AND PANNON SOIL COMPLEXES ALONG THE DANUBE RIVER

Abstract

Aim of this study was to produce and analysis about the regularities of shearing properties of soils, identified by routine testing methods for the sequential soil masses of the Pleistocene and Pannon escarpment walls along the western bank of the Danube. The study was able to prove that significantly more information can be achieved to about the shearing properties of individual soil samples and sequentiai soil masses on the basis of known and presently introduced failure criteria. These considerations renew the thesis that the shearing resistance and the relevant φ, and c are picked out or guessed independently of each other. Even a single test may produce results in close affinity to literary data.