Determine soils angle of internal friction under pressure

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A triaxial test was performed on a dry, cohesionless soil under confining pressure of 144 kN/m^2. If the sample failed when the deviator stress reached 395.8 kN/m^2, determine the soil's angle of internal friction.

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