Table 5 Summary of shear strength of samples with three roots (unit: kPa).

From: Mechanical properties of rooted soil under freeze–thaw cycles and extended binary medium constitutive model

Number of freeze–thaw cycles

25 kPa

50 kPa

100 kPa

200 kPa

0

151.71

203.81

355.90

587.00

1

135.71

201.18

348.99

570.82

5

120.79

200.03

337.99

531.09

15

117.09

193.36

331.88

519.54