In cemented, saturated, fine-grained soils, both frictional bonds and brittle cementation bonds operate simultaneously.

The internal force field in the brittle cementation bonds is essentially due to short-range force, and hence has no role to play either in holding water in the pores or in the deformation response of the soil, which only dependent on the osmotic long range force.

——§ 1998. Nagaraj&Pandian. Compressibility behaviour of cemented soils