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pore water pressure

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pore water pressure
The pressure of water which is present in saturated soil.
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Seed (1968) speculated that pore air pressure if not pore water pressure caused the flow-type failure of the loess slopes.
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But that strength disappears with an increase in pore water pressure during shaking.
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It also acts as a drainage medium to dissipate cyclic pore water pressures developed by the passage of trains.
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