Soil Mechanics play online

The app is a complete free handbook of Soil Mechanics with diagrams and graphs. It is part of Civil engineering education which brings important topics, notes, news & blog on the subject. The App serves as a quick reference guide of Soil Mechanics as engineering subject.

It covers 213 topics of Soil Mechanics in detail. These 213 topics are divided into 5 units.

The app is a free handbook for easy understanding and faster learning of the subject.Soil mechanics is usually a part of civil engineering domain.

All topics are like flashcard which is easy to browse and revise the topics specially at the time of exams and interviews. Some of the topics Covered in this application are:

1.\tGEOTECHNICAL LESSONS FROM FAILURES
2.\tGEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND PARTICLE SIZES OF SOILS
3.\tBASIC GEOLOGY
4.\tComposition of the Earths Crust
5.\tCOMPOSITION OF SOILS
6.\tSurface Forces and Adsorbed Water
7.\tDETERMINATION OF PARTICLE SIZE OF SOILS
8.\tParticle Size of Fine-Grained Soils
9.\tCOMPARISON OF COARSE-GRAINED AND FINE-GRAINED SOILS
10.\tINTRODUCTION OF SOILS INVESTIGATION
11.\tPHASES OF A SOILS INVESTIGATION
12.\tSOILS EXPLORATION PROGRAM
13.\tSoil Identification in the Field
14.\tSoil Sampling
15.\tGroundwater Conditions
16.\tTypes of In Situ or Field Tests
17.\tPHASE RELATIONSHIPS
18.\tPHYSICAL STATES AND INDEX PROPERTIES OF FINE-GRAINED SOILS
19.\tDETERMINATION OF THE LIQUID, PLASTIC, AND SHRINKAGE LIMITS
20.\tSOIL CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES
21.\tImportance of soil compaction
22.\tINTERPRETATION OF PROCTOR TEST RESULTS
23.\tFIELD COMPACTION
24.\tHEAD AND PRESSURE VARIATION IN A FLUID AT REST
25.\tDARCYS LAW
26.\tFLOW PARALLEL TO SOIL LAYERS
27.\tDETERMINATION OF THE HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY
28.\tFalling-Head Test
29.\tPumping Test to Determine the Hydraulic Conductivity
30.\tGROUNDWATER LOWERING BY WELLPOINTS
31.\tSTRESSES AND STRAINS
32.\tIDEALIZED STRESS - STRAIN RESPONSE AND YIELDING
33.\tPLANE STRAIN AND AXIAL SYMMETRIC CONDITIONS
34.\tAxisymmetric Condition
35.\tANISOTROPIC, ELASTIC STATES
36.\tMohrs Circle for Stress States
37.\tMohrs Circle for Strain States
38.\tThe Principle of Effective Stress
39.\tEffective Stresses Due to Geostatic Stress Fields
40.\tEffects of Capillarity
41.\tEffects of Seepage
42.\tLATERAL EARTH PRESSURE AT REST
43.\tSTRESSES IN SOIL FROM SURFACE LOADS
44.\tStrip Load
45.\tUniformly Loaded Rectangular Area
46.\tVertical Stress Below Arbitrarily Shaped Areas
47.\tSTRESS AND STRAIN INVARIANTS
48.\tHookes Law Using Stress and Strain Invariants
49.\tSTRESS PATHS
50.\tPlotting Stress Paths Using Two-Dimensional Stress Parameters
51.\tBASIC CONCEPTS
52.\tConsolidation Under a Constant Load Primary Consolidation
53.\tVoid Ratio and Settlement Changes Under a Constant Load
54.\tPrimary Consolidation Parameters
55.\tCALCULATION OF PRIMARY CONSOLIDATION SETTLEMENT
56.\tProcedure to Calculate Primary Consolidation Settlement
57.\tONE-DIMENSIONAL CONSOLIDATION THEORY
58.\tSolution of Governing Consolidation Equation Using Fourier Series
59.\tFinite Difference Solution of the Governing Consolidation Equation
60.\tSECONDARY COMPRESSION SETTLEMENT
61.\tOedometer Test
62.\tDetermination of the Coeffi cient of Consolidation
63.\tDetermination of the Past Maximum Vertical Effective Stress
64.\tPRECONSOLIDATION OF SOILS USING WICK DRAINS
65.\tTYPICAL RESPONSE OF SOILS TO SHEARING FORCES
66.\tPRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE FAILURE CRITERIA
67.\tEffects of Increasing the Normal Effective Stress
68.\tEffects of Soil Tension
69.\tCoulombs Failure Criterion
70.\tTaylors Failure Criterion
71.\tMohr - Coulomb Failure Criterion
72.\tINTERPRETATION OF THE SHEAR STRENGTH OF SOILS
73.\tLABORATORY TESTS TO DETERMINE SHEAR STRENGTH PARAMETERS
74.\tConventional Triaxial Apparatus
75.\tUnconfi ned Compression (UC) Test
76.\tConsolidated Undrained (CU) Compression Test
77.\tPOREWATER PRESSURE UNDER AXISYMMETRIC UNDRAINED LOADING


Soil Mechanics is part of Civil engineering courses in various engineering colleges.