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Submerged Weight and Seepage Forces

Lambe and Whitman discuss how submerged unit weight, buoyancy, and seepage forces affect stresses in soil, using simple 1D fluid-flow examples and effective stress principles. They explain boundary water forces, seepage force equilibrium, and conditions leading to quicksand or upward seepage failure.

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