The fifth video in the Bare Essentials of Soil Mechanics videos — everything a civil engineer really needs to know about soil mechanics.
Learning outcomes This video will help learners answer questions such as: What is geotech engineering? What is the relationship between civil engineering and geotechnical engineering? What does a geotech engineer do? In what civil engineering projects do geotechnical engineers get involved?
What is soil mechanics? About the Bare Essentials of Soil Mechanics series This video is part of the Bare Essentials of Soil Mechanics series, funded by the Ove Arup Foundation , in which Professor John Burland draws on his many years of practice in geotechnical engineering and teaching to provide listeners with what he regards to be the key knowledge that geotechnical engineers need to understand about soil mechanics in engineering practice.
Stress strain relations Undrained behaviour of soils Elastic stresses and deformations Tables for lateral earth pressure Sheet pile walls Sheet pile wall in layered soil Limit theorems for frictional materials Vertical slope in cohesive material Stability of infinite slope Pile foundations Appendix A.
Stress analysis Appendix B. Theory of elasticity Appendix C.
About Arnold Verruijt Prof. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in and from this university. He has published many papers and several books on groundwater flow and soil mechanics, usually with an emphasis on theoretical solutions of engineering problems. Marine soils have been deposited from the suspension in sea water.
Soil is an assemblage of particles that have little to no cementation while rock such as sandstone may consist of an assembly of particles that are strongly cemented together by chemical bonds. What is soil mechanics? It follows then that the undrained shear strength of a soil may be smaller or larger than the drained shear strength depending upon whether the soil is contractive or dilative. However, if the water table is sloping or there is a perched water table as indicated in the accompanying sketch, then seepage will occur. Index Properties of Soil. For hydrostatic conditions, the water pressure increases linearly with depth below the water table:. The authors have endeavoured to define and discuss the principles and concepts concisely, providing clear, detailed explanations, and a well-illustrated text with diagrams, charts, graphs and tables.
The common Indian soils are presented below: These soils are found along the coast in narrow tidal plains. These are very soft with low shear strength and high compressibility. Construction of structures on these soils is very challenging due to low bearing capacity and excessive settlement.
These are formed due to the decomposition of rocks and reddish in color. These are found in Assam to Punjab covering a large part of northern India.
These soils have alternating layers of sand, silt and clay. These are found in large parts of Rajasthan. Various types of soils based on their formation.
Introduction to Soil Mechanics Soil Mechanics is a discipline of Civil Engineering involving the study of soil, its behaviour and application as an engineering. Introduction to Soil Mechanics covers the basic principles of soil mechanics, illustrating why the properties of soil are important, the techniques used to.
Various types of soils formed due to weathering of parent rocks. Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics.