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INTRODUCTION OF SOIL MECHANICS
GEOTECHNICAL LESSONS FROM FAILURES
BASIC GEOLOGY
INTRODUCTION OF SOILS INVESTIGATION
PHASE RELATIONSHIPS
Importance of soil compaction
HEAD AND PRESSURE VARIATION IN A FLUID AT REST
GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND PARTICLE SIZES OF SOILS
Composition of the Earth’s Crust
PHASES OF A SOILS INVESTIGATION
PHYSICAL STATES AND INDEX PROPERTIES OF FINE-GRAINED SOILS
INTERPRETATION OF PROCTOR TEST RESULTS
DARCY’S LAW
COMPOSITION OF SOILS
SOILS EXPLORATION PROGRAM
DETERMINATION OF THE LIQUID, PLASTIC, AND SHRINKAGE LIMITS
SOIL CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES
FIELD COMPACTION
FLOW PARALLEL TO SOIL LAYERS
Surface Forces and Adsorbed Water
Soil Identifi cation in the Field
DETERMINATION OF THE HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY
DETERMINATION OF PARTICLE SIZE OF SOILS
Soil Sampling
Falling-Head Test
Particle Size of Fine-Grained Soils
Groundwater Conditions
Pumping Test to Determine the Hydraulic Conductivity
COMPARISON OF COARSE-GRAINED AND FINE-GRAINED SOILS
Types of In Situ or Field Tests
GROUNDWATER LOWERING BY WELLPOINTS
SOIL WATER AND WATER FLOW
STRESSES AND STRAINS
STRESS AND STRAIN INVARIANTS
IDEALIZED STRESS–STRAIN RESPONSE AND YIELDING
Hooke’s Law Using Stress and Strain Invariants
PLANE STRAIN AND AXIAL SYMMETRIC CONDITIONS
STRESS PATHS
Axisymmetric Condition
Plotting Stress Paths Using Two-Dimensional Stress Parameters
ANISOTROPIC, ELASTIC STATES
Mohr’s Circle for Stress States
Mohr’s Circle for Strain States
The Principle of Effective Stress
Effective Stresses Due to Geostatic Stress Fields
Effects of Capillarity
Effects of Seepage
LATERAL EARTH PRESSURE AT REST
STRESSES IN SOIL FROM SURFACE LOADS
Strip Load
Uniformly Loaded Rectangular Area
Vertical Stress Below Arbitrarily Shaped Areas
STRESS DISTRIBUTIONCOMPRESSIBILITY AND SETTLEMENT
BASIC CONCEPTS
TYPICAL RESPONSE OF SOILS TO SHEARING FORCES
BASIC CONCEPTS
Consolidation Under a Constant Load—Primary Consolidation
Effects of Increasing the Normal Effective Stress
Soil Yielding
Void Ratio and Settlement Changes Under a Constant Load
Effects of Soil Tension
Primary Consolidation Parameters
Coulomb’s Failure Criterion
CALCULATION OF PRIMARY CONSOLIDATION SETTLEMENT
Taylor’s Failure Criterion
Procedure to Calculate Primary Consolidation Settlement
Mohr–Coulomb Failure Criterion
ONE-DIMENSIONAL CONSOLIDATION THEORY
PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE FAILURE CRITERIA
Solution of Governing Consolidation Equation Using Fourier Series
INTERPRETATION OF THE SHEAR STRENGTH OF SOILS
Finite Difference Solution of the Governing Consolidation Equation
LABORATORY TESTS TO DETERMINE SHEAR STRENGTH PARAMETERS
SECONDARY COMPRESSION SETTLEMENT
Conventional Triaxial Apparatus
Oedometer Test
Unconfi ned Compression (UC) Test
Determination of the Coeffi cient of Consolidation
Consolidated Undrained (CU) Compression Test
Determination of the Past Maximum Vertical Effective Stress
POREWATER PRESSURE UNDER AXISYMMETRIC UNDRAINED LOADING
PRECONSOLIDATION OF SOILS USING WICK DRAINS
OTHER LABORATORY DEVICES TO MEASURE SHEAR STRENGTH
Hollow-Cylinder Apparatus
FIELD TESTS
SHEAR STRENGTH
ALLOWABLE STRESS AND LOAD AND RESISTANCE FACTOR DESIGN
COLLAPSE LOAD USING THE LIMIT EQUILIBRIUM METHOD
Prediction of the Behavior of Coarse-Grained Soils Using CSM
BEARING CAPACITY EQUATIONS
ELEMENTS OF THE CRITICAL STATE MODEL
MAT FOUNDATIONS
FAILURE STRESSES FROM THE CRITICAL STATE MODEL
BEARING CAPACITY OF LAYERED SOILS
Undrained Triaxial Test
SETTLEMENT CALCULATIONS
MODIFICATIONS OF CSM AND THEIR PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
Primary Consolidation Settlement
RELATIONSHIPS FROM CSM THAT ARE OF PRACTICAL SIGNIFICANCE
DETERMINATION OF BEARING CAPACITY AND SETTLEMENT OF COARSE-GRAINED SOILS
Relationships Among the Tension Cutoff, Mean Effective Stress, and Preconsolidation Stress
Cone Penetration Test (CPT)
Relationships Among Undrained Shear Strength, Critical State Friction Angle, and Preconsolidation Ratio
Plate Load Test (PLT)
Relationship Between the Normalized Undrained Shear Strength of One-Dimensionally Consolidated or Ko-Consolidated and Isotropically
SHALLOW FOUNDATION ANALYSIS USING CSM
Relationship Between the Normalized Undrained Shear Strength at Initial Yield and at Critical State for Overconsolidated Fine-Grained Soils Under Triaxial Test Condition
Dense, Coarse-Grained Soils
Relationship Between Direct Simple Shear Tests and Triaxial Tests
Relationship for the Application of Drained and Undrained
Relationship Among Excess Porewater Pressure, Preconsolidation Ratio, and Critical State Friction Angle
Undrained Shear Strength, Liquidity Index, and Sensitivity
SOIL STIFFNESS
STRAINS FROM THE CRITICAL STATE MODEL
Shear Strains
CALCULATED STRESS–STRAIN RESPONSE
APPLICATION OF CSM TO CEMENTED SOILS
SLOPE STABILITY
TYPES OF PILES AND INSTALLATION
TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW OF WATER THROUGH POROUS MEDIA
BASIC CONCEPTS OF LATERAL EARTH PRESSURES
SOME CAUSES OF SLOPE FAILURE
Pile Installation
FLOWNET SKETCHING
COULOMB’S EARTH PRESSURE THEORY
Construction Activities
LOAD CAPACITY OF SINGLE PILES
INTERPRETATION OF FLOWNET
RANKINE’S LATERAL EARTH PRESSURE FOR A SLOPING BACKFILL AND A SLOPING WALL FACE
INFINITE SLOPES
PILE LOAD TEST (ASTM D 1143)
FLOW THROUGH EARTH DAMS
LATERAL EARTH PRESSURES FOR A TOTAL STRESS ANALYSIS
ROTATIONAL SLOPE FAILURES
METHODS USING STATICS FOR DRIVEN PILES
SOIL FILTRATION
APPLICATION OF LATERAL EARTH PRESSURES TO RETAINING WALLS
METHOD OF SLICES
PILE LOAD CAPACITY OF DRIVEN PILES BASED ON SPT AND CPT RESULTS
TYPES OF RETAINING WALLS AND MODES OF FAILURE
APPLICATION OF THE METHOD OF SLICES
LOAD CAPACITY OF DRILLED SHAFTS
STABILITY OF RIGID RETAINING WALLS
PROCEDURE FOR THE METHOD OF SLICES
PILE GROUPS
STABILITY OF FLEXIBLE RETAINING WALLS
STABILITY OF SLOPES WITH SIMPLE GEOMETRY
ELASTIC SETTLEMENT OF PILES
Analysis of Sheet Pile Walls in Mixed Soils
CONSOLIDATION SETTLEMENT UNDER A PILE GROUP
BRACED EXCAVATION
SETTLEMENT OF DRILLED SHAFTS
MECHANICAL STABILIZED EARTH WALLS
PILE-DRIVING FORMULAS AND WAVE EQUATION
OTHER TYPES OF RETAINING WALLS
LATERALLY LOADED PILES
MICROPILES
Branch :
Civil Engineering
Subject :
Soil Mechanics
Unit :
INTRODUCTION OF SOIL MECHANICS
GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND PARTICLE SIZES OF SOILS
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