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Correction for increasing effective overburden pressure have been proposed by ___________

(a) Gibbs and Holtz

(b) Peck

(c) Thornburn

(d) All of the mentioned

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This interesting question is from Bearing Capacity topic in chapter Bearing Capacity of Geotechnical Engineering II

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The correct option is (d) All of the mentioned

The explanation: For a constant density index, the N value increase with increasing effective overburden pressure for which correction have been proposed by Gibbs and Holtz, peck, Thornburn, Whitman and others.

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