Soil Mechanics

Soil Mechanics: The app is a complete free handbook of Soil Mechanics which covers important topics, notes, materials on the course. It covers 213 topics of Soil Mechanics in detail. These 213 topics are divided into 5 units. The App is designed for quick learning, revisions, references at the time of exams and interviews. This app cover most of related topics and Detailed explanation with all the basics topics. Some of the 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 This app will useful for quick reference. The revision of all concepts can be finished within Several hour using this app. Instead of giving us a lower rating, please mail us your queries, issues and give us valuable Rating And Suggestion So we can consider it for Future Updates. We will be happy to solve them for you.