Why this course?

Description

KEY FEATURES

• Topics are taught thoroughly and systematically to clarify the basic concepts and fundamental principles without weakening technical hardship.
• Many example problems are solved to demonstrate or provide further insights into fundamental principles' basic concepts and applications.
• Each example's solution is preceded by a strategy intended to teach students to think about possible solutions to a problem before they begin to solve it. Each solution provides a step-by-step procedure to guide the student in problem-solving, which helps students for university examinations and conventional exams like ESE (Engineering Services Examinations).

THE GOAL OF THIS COURSE...

• To understand the physical and mechanical properties of soils.
• To determine parameters from soil testing to characterize soil properties, strength, and deformations.
• To apply soil mechanics principles to analyze and design simple geotechnical systems.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
When you complete this video course, you should be able to:

• Describe soils and determine their physical characteristics, such as grain size, water content, and void ratio.
• Classify soils.
• Determine compaction of soils.
• Understand the importance of soil investigations and plan a soil investigation.
• Understand the concept of effective stress.
• Determine total and effective stresses and porewater pressures.
• Determine soil permeability.
• Understand the effects of seepage on the stability of structures.
• Determine how surface stresses are distributed within a soil mass.
• Specify, conduct, and interpret soil tests to characterize soils.
• Understand the stress-strain behaviour of soils.
• Understand popular failure criteria for soils and their limitations.
• Determine soil strength and deformation parameters from soil tests, such as Young's modulus,
• friction angle, and undrained shear strength.
• Discriminate between "drained" and "undrained" conditions.