Standard syllabus
Geotechnical engineering · Undergraduate · Engineering
Topics
Soil properties and classification
- Soil formation and mineralogy for engineers
- Phase diagrams: water content, void ratio, saturation
- Grain size distribution and Atterberg limits
- USCS and AASHTO soil classification systems
- Compaction: Proctor tests and field control
- Effective stress principle and pore water pressure
- Capillarity and seepage in soils
- Darcy's law and coefficient of permeability
- Flow nets and uplift/seepage forces
- Stress distribution in elastic half-space (intro)
Strength and consolidation
- Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion for soils
- Triaxial and direct shear testing
- Undrained versus drained strength parameters
- Lateral earth pressure: at-rest, active, passive
- Rankine and Coulomb earth pressure theories
- One-dimensional consolidation theory
- Settlement: immediate and consolidation components
- Bearing capacity of shallow foundations
- Slope stability: infinite slope and circular slip surfaces
- Retaining wall design basics
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