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A major drawback of Mohr criterion is ____________

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A major drawback of Mohr criterion is ____________

(a) Shape of the envelope

(b) Principal stress

(c) Shape of the plane

(d) All of the mentioned

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Query is from The Mohr in section Failure Envelopes & Earth Pressure of Geotechnical Engineering II

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Correct choice is (a) Shape of the envelope

Easiest explanation: The major drawback of Mohr criterion is that the curved shape of the envelope, hence the functional form of the equation τmax=F (σn) is not amendable to mathematical computation.

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