Geotechnical Engineering

xx CONTENTS 20 ELEMENTS OF SOIL DYNAMICS ANO MACHINE FOUNDATIONS 812 20 .1 Introduction 812 20 .2 Fundamentals of Vibration 815 ...

1 Chapter 1 SOIL AND SOIL MECHANICS *According to him, ‘‘Soil Mechanics is the application of the laws of mechanics and hydrauli ...

DHARM 2 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING Until recently, a civil engineer has been using the term ‘soil’ in its broadest sense to includ ...

DHARM SOIL AND SOIL MECHANICS 3 Fifteen International Conferences have been held till now under the auspices of the internationa ...

DHARM 4 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING The knowledge of soil mechanics, assuming the soil to be an ideal material elastic, iso- tropic ...

DHARM SOIL AND SOIL MECHANICS 5 Soil Profile A deposit of soil material, resulting from one or more of the geological processes ...

DHARM 6 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING C horizon 3 to 4 m 1 B horizon 60 to 100 cm A horizon 30 to 50 cm C horizon below 4 to 5 m 2 A: ...

DHARM SOIL AND SOIL MECHANICS 7 sizes and a high degree of smoothness and fineness of individual grains are the typical charac- ...

DHARM 8 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING Marl. Mixtures of clacareous sands or clays or loam; clay content not more than 75% and lime co ...

DHARM SOIL AND SOIL MECHANICS 9 1.7.3 Flocculent Structure This structure is characteristic of fine-grained soils such as clays. ...

DHARM 10 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING high swelling and shrinkage potential these are difficult soils to deal with in foundation des ...

DHARM SOIL AND SOIL MECHANICS 11 M.G. Spangler: Soil Engineering, International Textbook Company, Scranton, USA, 1951. K. Terza ...

2.1 Composition of Soil Soil is a complex physical system. A mass of soil includes accumulated solid particles or soil grains an ...

DHARM COMPOSITION OF SOIL TERMINOLOGY AND DEFINITIONS 13 When the soil voids are completely filled with water, the gaseous phase ...

DHARM 14 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING The general three-phase diagram for soil will help in understanding the terminology and also i ...

DHARM COMPOSITION OF SOIL TERMINOLOGY AND DEFINITIONS 15 na = v V a× 100 ...(Eq. 2.4) Air Content ‘Air content’ of a soil mass i ...

DHARM 16 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING The value of γo is 1g/cm^3 or 1000 kg/m^3 or 9.81 kN/m^3. Saturated Unit Weight The ‘Saturated ...

DHARM COMPOSITION OF SOIL TERMINOLOGY AND DEFINITIONS 17 Mass Specific Gravity The ‘Mass specific gravity’ of a soil may be defi ...

DHARM 18 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING A number of useful relationships may be derived based on the foregoing definitions and the soi ...

DHARM COMPOSITION OF SOIL TERMINOLOGY AND DEFINITIONS 19 ∴ wsat = e/G or e = wsat.G ...(Eq. 2.22) na = V V VV VV v v v v v v e v ...