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The effective stress in a saturated soil is
Answer: B
Terzaghi's relation \( \sigma' = \sigma - u \) is the whole of the explanation: the soil skeleton carries only what the water does not. Raising \( u \) towards \( \sigma \) therefore drives \( \sigma' \) and the strength to zero.
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