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Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology; 1983; v. 16; issue.2; p. 143-147;
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.QJEG.1983.016.02.07
© 1983 Geological Society of London

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Fitting failure envelopes by the method of least squares

J. A. Bland

Department of Building and Civil Engineering, Liverpool Polytechnic, Liverpool L3 5UB

A proposed form of Mohr's failure criterion is shown to reduce, under certain conditions, to several classical failure criteria. The failure envelope for each criterion is then determined using the method of least squares.