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Course Overview

Introduction to Soil Mechanics

Basic Definitions and Relationships

Basic Definitions

Relation between Soil Constituents

Determination of Water Content

Determination of Specific Gravity

Determination of Unit Weight

Index Properties

Seive Analysis

Sedimentation Analysis

Particle size ditribution Curve

Liquid Limit, Plastic Limit and Shrinkage Limit

Shrinkage Parameters

Activity, Sensitivity and Thixotropy

Soil Classification

Textural and Highway Reasearch Board Classification

Unified Soil Classification System

Soil Structure and Clay Mineralogy

Soil Structure and MInerology

Permeability (One-Dimensional Flow of Water) Hydraulic Conductivity

Introduction to Permeability

Determination of Permeability

Flow Parallel and Perpendicular to Soil Layers

Well Hydraulics

Seepage (Two-Dimensional Flow of Water)

Laplace Equation

Flow Net

Flow through Earth Dams

Stress-strain and Effective Stress

Simple Stress-strain and Modulus of elasticity

Effect of Water-table and Surcharge

Effect of Capillarity and Seepage

Stress Distribution in Soil

Principal Stresses

Point Load and Line Load

Strip Load and Embankment Load

Circular Load, Rectangular Load and Newmark's Influence Chart

Compressibility and Consolidation

Soil Settelement

Shear Strength of Soil

Shear strength of soils