Different experimental and theoretical methods that are used in practice to determine tensile strength of sand and clay in saturated and unsaturated condition.
Dear Saurabh,
I didn't hear about "tensile strength of soil " in soil mechanics before, there is "Cohesion" , some types of soil have real cohesion like clay and silt, others have apparent cohesion (due to capillary) like wet fine sand. Soil strength always define by their shear strength.
On other hand, if you mean by "tensile strength of soil " the minimum normal stress at failure, you can calculate it from direct shear test or from tri-axial test.
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Dear Saurabh,
Following methods for determine tensile strength of clya:
a) Axial tensile test (direct tension test)
b) Triaxial tensile test
c) Bending test
d) Test on hollow cylinder
e) Indirect (Brazilian) tensile test.
some useful papers links given below
http://www.fg.uni-mb.si/journal-ags/pdfs/AGS_2013-1_article_1.pdf
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F3-540-69873-6_21#page-1
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-26736-0_30#page-1
All the best
Dear Kundan,
Thank you for your valuable information and papers
best wishes
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