Soil Mechanics - Overburden Pressure, Darcy-Weisbach Equation, Soil Liquefaction, Hydraulic Conductivity, Shear Strength, Porosity (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Overburden pressure, Darcy-Weisbach equation, Soil liquefaction, Hydraulic conductivity, Shear strength, Porosity, Drucker Prager yield criterion, Water content, Lahar, Permeability, Characterisation of pore space in soil, Lateral earth pressure, Flownet, Darcy's law, Quick clay, Specific storage, Subsidence, Specific weight, Thixotropy, Angle of repose, Consolidation, Bearing capacity, Slope stability, Critical state soil mechanics, Dry quicksand, Effective stress, Capacitance probe, Asperity, Groundwater-related subsidence, Soil nailing, Frequency domain sensor, Terzaghi's Principle, Pore water pressure, Void ratio, Vibro stone column, Fractal in soil mechanics, Reynolds' dilatancy, Cohesion, Bound water, Resonant column test, Expansive clay, Shear strength test. Excerpt: Soil mechanics is a branch of engineering mechanics that describes the behavior of soils. It differs from fluid mechanics and solid mechanics in the sense that soils consist of a heterogeneous mixture of fluids (usually air and water) and particles (usually clay, silt, sand, and gravel) but soil may also contain organic solids, liquids, and gasses and other matter. Along with rock mechanics, soil mechanics provides the theoretical basis for analysis in geotechnical engineering, a subdiscipline of Civil engineering. Soil mechanics is used to analyze the deformations of and flow of fluids within natural and man-made structures that are supported on or made of soil, or structures that are buried in soils. Examples applications are building and bridge foundations, retaining walls, dams, and buried pipeline systems. Principles of soil mechanics are also used in related disciplines such as geophysical engineering, engineering geology, coastal engineering, agricultural engineering, hydrology and soil physics. The Tower of Pisa -- an example of a problem...