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The theory of effective stress was developed by Terzaghi in the early 1920s. Its principal positions on stress in soils imply the following: (a) in the water-saturated soil with open porosity, effective stresses represent the excessive stress in the soil skeleton over the neutral stress; (b) effective stresses control the strain-and-stress state, volume variation, and strength independently of neutral stress.
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Osipov, V.I. (2015). The Terzaghi Theory of Effective Stress. In: Physicochemical Theory of Effective Stress in Soils. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20639-4_2
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