FE Civil Exam Prep 69, Shear Strength — Mohr-Coulomb and Triaxial

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams. In this episode you will learn: - How to apply the Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion for different soil types on the FE Civil exam. - The critical difference between drained (effective stress) and undrained (total stress) analysis for clays. - Why the friction angle is considered zero in an undrained analysis of saturated clay. - How to determine undrained shear strength (c_u) from an unconfined compression test result (q_u). - How triaxial test results (σ₁ and σ₃) are used to find the shear strength parameters c and φ. For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep