Solution:

150 300 450 600

103 202 305 410

82 169 252 331

253 502 755 1010

68 131 198 269

171 333 503 679

Here, 
 

And,


The Mohr circle for all the values and failure envelope are drawn below. A tangent is then drawn joining all the Mohr s circle.

From the tangent we get

The principal stress difference at failure depends only on the value of all-round pressure under which consolidation took place, i.e. 250 . Hence, by proportion, the expected value of .