Geotechnical engineering Course Objectives Shear Strength of Soils: Importance of shear strength – Mohr’s– Coulomb Failure theories – Types of laboratory tests for strength parameters – strength tests based on drainage conditions – strength envelops – Shear strength of sands – dilatancy – critical void ratio, Introduction to stress path method.
Geotechnical engineering Unit Five UNIT – V Geotechnical engineering Unit Four UNIT – IVĬonsolidation: Types of compressibility – Immediate Settlement, primary consolidation and secondary consolidation – stress history of clay e-p and e-log(p) curves – normally consolidated soil, over consolidated soil and under consolidated soil – preconsolidation pressure and its determination – Terzaghi’s 1-D consolidation theory – coefficient of consolidation: square root time and logarithm of time fitting methods – computation of total settlement and time rate of settlement. Stress Distribution in Soils: Boussinesq’s and Westergaard’s theories for point load, uniformly loaded circular and rectangular areas, pressure bulb, variation of vertical stress under point load along the vertical and horizontal plane, and Newmark’s influence chart for irregular areas.ĬOMPACTION: Mechanism of compaction – factors affecting compaction – effects of compaction on soil properties – Field compaction Equipment – compaction quality control.
Geotechnical engineering Unit Three UNIT –III Permeability: Soil water – capillary rise – flow of water through soils – Darcy’s law- permeability – Factors affecting permeability – laboratory determination of coefficient of permeability –Permeability of layered soils.Įffective Stress & Seepage Through Soils: Total, neutral and effective stress – principle of effective stress – quick sand condition – Seepage through soils – Flownets: Characteristics and Uses. Geotechnical engineering Unit Two UNIT –II Index Properties of Soils: Grain size analysis – consistency limits and indices – I.S. Introduction: Soil formation and structure – moisture content – Mass, volume relationships – Specific Gravity-Field density by core cutter and sand replacement methods-Relative density. Geotechnical engineering Unit One UNIT – I If you are having a hard time understanding Geotechnical engineering or any other Engineering Subject of any semester or year then please watch the video lectures on the official CynoHub app as it has detailed explanations of each and every topic making your engineering experience easy and fun. Geotechnical engineering can be learnt easily as long as you have a well planned study schedule and practice all the previous question papers, which are also available on the CynoHub app.Īll of the Topic and subtopics related to Geotechnical engineering are mentioned below in detail.
Geotechnical engineering has 5 units altogether and you will be able to find notes for every unit on the CynoHub app. READ ALSO Strength Of Materials By S.K.Mondal DownloadBecome a member to view this content.You will be able to find information about Geotechnical engineering along with its Course Objectives and Course outcomes and also a list of textbook and reference books in this blog.You will get to learn a lot of new stuff and resolve a lot of questions you may have regarding Geotechnical engineering after reading this blog. CHAPTER 24 Geoenvironmental Engineering.CHAPTER 23 Erosion of Soils and Scour Problems.CHAPTER 16 Thermodynamics for Soil Problems.CHAPTER 13 Flow of Fluid and Gas Through Soils.CHAPTER 10 Stresses, Effective Stress, Water Stress, Air Stress, and Strains.CHAPTER 6 Site Investigation, Drilling, and Sampling.CHAPTER 3 Soil Components and Weight-Volume Parameters.This groundbreaking work features a number of topics typically left out of undergraduate geotechnical courses.READ ALSO Project Management in Construction by Dennis Lock Table of Content Destined to become the next leading text in the field, this book presents a new approach to teaching the subject, based on fundamentals of unsaturated soils, and extending the description of applications of soil mechanics to a wide variety of topics.
Written by a leader on the subject, Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering is first introductory geotechnical engineering textbook to cover both saturated and unsaturated soil mechanics.