Brief Historical development of Soil Engineering - Soil Problems in Engineering - Origin and general types of soils - soil structure, clay minerals.
Weight - volume relationship - Identification and Classification of soil. Soil water - capillary phenomena - concept of effective and neutral stresses - Permeability - determination of coefficient of permeability in the laboratory - Seepage flow - Head, gradient, pressure - steady state flow - two dimensional - flow net.
Vertical stress distribution in soil - Boussinesq and Westergaard's equation - Newmark's influence chart - principle, construction and use - Equivalent point load and other approximate methods - pressure bulb.
Compaction Shear strength - Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion - shear strength tests - Different drainage conditions - Shear properties of cohesionless and cohesive soils - Use of Mohr’s circle - relationship between principal stresses and shear parameters.
Compressibility and consolidation - Terzaghi's one dimensional consolidation theory - pressure void ratio relationship - pre-consolidation pressure - Total settlement and time rate of settlement - coefficient of consolidation - curve fitting methods - Correction for construction time.
Books:
Gopal Ranjan and Rao, Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics, Wiley Eastern Pub,1985.
Murthy, V.N.S., Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Dhanpat Raj, Edn.4, 1993.
Punmia, B.C. Soil Mechanics and Foundation, Std. Book House, 1991.
