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A soil engineers usually encounter problems of stress distribution in __________

(a) Vicinity of vertical shafts and Vicinity of inclined shafts

(b) Vicinity of horizontal shafts

(c) None of the mentioned

(d) All of the mentioned

This question was posed to me in an interview.

This interesting question is from Stress Distribution in the Vicinity of Shafts topic in chapter Shafts, Tunnels and Conduits of Geotechnical Engineering II

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Correct choice is (a) Vicinity of vertical shafts and Vicinity of inclined shafts

For explanation I would say: A soil engineer is commonly encountered with the problem of stress distribution in the vicinity of vertical or inclined shafts in an elastic semi-infinite solid with a horizontal or inclined surface.

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