Shelby tube is one of the most widely used devices for:

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  1. wash borings and drilling cobbles
  2. measuring effective stress and plotting Mohr envelope
  3. collecting undisturbed soil samples
  4. drilling rocks

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Option 3 : collecting undisturbed soil samples
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  • A thin-walled sampler is used for obtaining an undisturbed sample.
  • Shelby tube samplers are thin-walled, hollow steel tubes, which are driven Into the ground to extract a relatively undisturbed soil sample for use in laboratory tests used to determine density, permeability, compressibility, and strength.
  • Piston samplers are thin-walled tube samplers, which are also used for collecting undisturbed samples in soft soil.

Additional InformationUndisturbed sample:

  • An undisturbed sample is that in which the natural structure and properties remain preserved.
  • These samples are used in size distribution, Atterberg's limits, consolidation parameter, coefficient of permeability, shear strength parameter.

Disturbed sample:

  • A disturbed sample is that in which the natural structure of soils get partly of fully modified and destroyed.
  • A thick-walled sampler is used for obtaining disturbed but representative samples.
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