Corrections to the 2000 version of the ‘Manual for Wedge Shear Testing of Soils' by 18.7.2002


  • The On page viii, the last sentence in the Preface has been deleted, and the following footnote added in relation to the "staff members" in line 6 of paragraph 2: * The Author is indebted to Dr. Engin Karaesmen for help with the correct calculation of the coefficient of correlation for regression forced through the origin. 
  • On page 141, Fig. 5.26, the sections AC and A'C' together with the dashed positions of the handles have been flattened by about 5 degrees, to avoid ambiguity about the area correction applied during the test.