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Reference Materials
NAVFAC DM 7.01 (Soil Mechanics)
EM 1110-2-1906 (Laboratory Soils Testing)
Important Links
UTC Web Site
Cooper Union Virtual Soils Lab
Subject Lectures
Overview of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering; Rock Quality Designation
Soil Composition; Weight and Volume Relationships; Water Content Test
Soil Classification
Field Exploration
Overview; Published Data; Soil Borings; Standard Penetration Test (SPT); Cone Penetrometer Tests (CPT)
Soil Boring Logs; Vane Shear Tests; Inclinometers; Piezometers; Geophysical Methods and Seismic Refraction
Seepage and Drainage
Permeability; Flow Nets; Capillary Rise
Dewatering; Soil Filters; Sheet Pile Cutoffs; Geotextiles; Groundwater Contamination
Subsurface Stresses
Principal Stresses; Mohr's Circle; Effective and Total Stress; Po Diagrams; Lateral Earth Pressures
Boussinesq and Westergaard Stresses; Embankment and Column Loading
Settlement and Volume Expansion
Cohesionless Soils; Schmertmann's and Perloff's Methods
Cohesive Soils; Classical Terzaghi consolidation theory; overconsolidated soils; time rate of consolidation
Settlement Effects on Buildings; Vertical and Wick Drains
Shear Strength; Failure Envelopes for Mohr-Coulomb Soils; Methods of Determining Shear Strength
Slope Stability
Fellenius and Bishop Methods
Morganstern-Price and Spencer Methods; Morganstern Rapid Drawdown Method
Soil Compaction; "Cut and Fill" Earthwork Calculations
Laboratory Lectures
Unit Weight Test; Specific Gravity Test
Grain Size Analysis (Sieve and Hydrometer Tests); Atterberg Limits (Liquid and Plastic Limit Tests)
Compaction Tests (Proctor and Modified Proctor)
Permeability Tests (Constant Head and Falling Head Tests)
Consolidation Test
Drained Direct Shear Test
Triaxial Compression Test (Q, R, and S or U-U, C-U, and C-D)
Unconfined Compression Test; Overview of Slope Stability
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