Textbooks in Print

• V.N.S. Murthy, Geotechnical Engineering
• Military Soils Engineering
• Soils and Foundations Reference Manual (Volume I)

Textbooks and other course references for Free Download

• Military Soils Engineering, U.S. Army FM 5-410
• Laboratory Soils Testing, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, EM 1110-2-1906
• Materials Testing, U.S. Army FM 5-530
• Soil Mechanics, NAVFAC DM 7.01
• Soils and Foundations Reference Manual

Online Reference Materials

• Other geotechnical information and resources
• Soils in Construction site (including Mohr's Circle calculator)
• All UTC Course Materials on this site (including previous ENCE 3610 notes)

Important External Links

• UTC General Web Site
• UTC Blackboard Site
• Online Calculator

Other Stuff

• Blessed are the Merciful: I keep getting requests to "go light" on the grading. This is how I did it myself.
• My Thoughts on Sleeping in Class
• When the Pathfinder Gets Lost: some students like to "follow the lead" of someone else to get the course work done. That can have negative results other than those described in the syllabus, just like this example.

Basic Resources

• Syllabus (Course)
• Syllabus (Laboratory)
• Guidelines for Laboratory Reports
• Laboratory Spreadsheet and Data Forms

Lectures

• Introduction; Engineering Geology
• Soil Composition I
• Soil Composition II
• Soil Classification
• Compaction and Soil Improvement (Proctor Compaction Testing)
• Groundwater I
• Groundwater II
• Groundwater III
• Effective Stress
• Induced Stresses by External Loads
• Settlement and Volume Expansion
• Mohr's Circle and Combined Stresses
• Shear Strength
• Site Exploration and Characterisation
• Stability of Earth Slopes
• Lateral Earth Pressures