Features
- This unique free application is for all students across the world. It covers 213 topics of Soil Mechanics in detail. These 213 topics are divided in 5 units.
- Each topic is around 600 words and is complete with diagrams, equations and other forms of graphical representations along with simple text explaining the concept in detail.
- This USP of this application is "ultra-portability". Students can access the content on-the-go from anywhere they like.
- Basically, each topic is like a detailed flash card and will make the lives of students simpler and easier.
- Some of topics Covered in this application are:
- 1. GEOTECHNICAL LESSONS FROM FAILURES
- 2. GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND PARTICLE SIZES OF SOILS
- 3. BASIC GEOLOGY
- 4. Composition of the Earth’s Crust
- 5. COMPOSITION OF SOILS
- 6. Surface Forces and Adsorbed Water
- 7. DETERMINATION OF PARTICLE SIZE OF SOILS
- 8. Particle Size of Fine-Grained Soils
- 9. COMPARISON OF COARSE-GRAINED AND FINE-GRAINED SOILS
- 10. INTRODUCTION OF SOILS INVESTIGATION
- 11. PHASES OF A SOILS INVESTIGATION
- 12. SOILS EXPLORATION PROGRAM
- 13. Soil Identification in the Field
- 14. Soil Sampling
- 15. Groundwater Conditions
- 16. Types of In Situ or Field Tests
- 17. PHASE RELATIONSHIPS
- 18. PHYSICAL STATES AND INDEX PROPERTIES OF FINE-GRAINED SOILS
- 19. DETERMINATION OF THE LIQUID, PLASTIC, AND SHRINKAGE LIMITS
- 20. SOIL CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES
- 21. Importance of soil compaction
- 22. INTERPRETATION OF PROCTOR TEST RESULTS
- 23. FIELD COMPACTION
- 24. HEAD AND PRESSURE VARIATION IN A FLUID AT REST
- 25. DARCY’S LAW
- 26. FLOW PARALLEL TO SOIL LAYERS
- 27. DETERMINATION OF THE HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY
- 28. Falling-Head Test
- 29. Pumping Test to Determine the Hydraulic Conductivity
- 30. GROUNDWATER LOWERING BY WELLPOINTS
- 31. STRESSES AND STRAINS
- 32. IDEALIZED STRESS - STRAIN RESPONSE AND YIELDING
- 33. PLANE STRAIN AND AXIAL SYMMETRIC CONDITIONS
- 34. Axisymmetric Condition
- 35. ANISOTROPIC, ELASTIC STATES
- 36. Mohr’s Circle for Stress States
- 37. Mohr’s Circle for Strain States
- 38. The Principle of Effective Stress
- 39. Effective Stresses Due to Geostatic Stress Fields
- 40. Effects of Capillarity
- 41. Effects of Seepage
- 42. LATERAL EARTH PRESSURE AT REST
- 43. STRESSES IN SOIL FROM SURFACE LOADS
- 44. Strip Load
- 45. Uniformly Loaded Rectangular Area
- 46. Vertical Stress Below Arbitrarily Shaped Areas
- 47. STRESS AND STRAIN INVARIANTS
- 48. Hooke’s Law Using Stress and Strain Invariants
- 49. STRESS PATHS
- 50. Plotting Stress Paths Using Two-Dimensional Stress Parameters
- 51. BASIC CONCEPTS
- 52. Consolidation Under a Constant Load Primary Consolidation
- 53. Void Ratio and Settlement Changes Under a Constant Load
- 54. Primary Consolidation Parameters
- 55. CALCULATION OF PRIMARY CONSOLIDATION SETTLEMENT
- 56. Procedure to Calculate Primary Consolidation Settlement
- 57. ONE-DIMENSIONAL CONSOLIDATION THEORY
- 58. Solution of Governing Consolidation Equation Using Fourier Series
- 59. Finite Difference Solution of the Governing Consolidation Equation
- 60. SECONDARY COMPRESSION SETTLEMENT
- 61. Oedometer Test
- 62. Determination of the Coeffi cient of Consolidation
- 63. Determination of the Past Maximum Vertical Effective Stress
- 64. PRECONSOLIDATION OF SOILS USING WICK DRAINS
- 65. TYPICAL RESPONSE OF SOILS TO SHEARING FORCES
- 66. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE FAILURE CRITERIA
- 67. Effects of Increasing the Normal Effective Stress
- 68. Effects of Soil Tension
- 69. Coulomb’s Failure Criterion
- 70. Taylor’s Failure Criterion
- 71. Mohr - Coulomb Failure Criterion
- 72. INTERPRETATION OF THE SHEAR STRENGTH OF SOILS
- 73. LABORATORY TESTS TO DETERMINE SHEAR STRENGTH PARAMETERS
- 74. Conventional Triaxial Apparatus
- 75. Unconfi ned Compression (UC) Test
- 76. Consolidated Undrained (CU) Compression Test
- 77. POREWATER PRESSURE UNDER AXISYMMETRIC UNDRAINED LOADING
- 78. OTHER LABORATORY DEVICES TO MEASURE SHEAR STRENGTH
- 79. Hollow-Cylinder Apparatus
- 80. FIELD TESTS
- 81. BASIC CONCEPTS
- 82. Soil Yielding
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Details were last updated on Nov 15, 2024 20:05 +08.
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