<\/strong>CE 351: Soil Mechanics<\/strong><\/p>\n Course content:<\/strong> \u00a0Stresses within a soil, effective stress principle, stress point and stress path, Soil – water systems- capillarity, flow, Darcy\u2019s law, permeability, and tests for its determination, different heads, piping, quicksand condition, seepage, flow nets, Compressibility and consolidation characteristics, Strength and direct and\u00a0triaxial\u00a0shear tests, Mohr – Coulomb strength criterion, drained, consolidated\u00a0undrained\u00a0 and\u00a0 undrainedtests, strength of loose and dense sands, NC and OC soils, dilation, pore pressures,\u00a0Skempton\u2019s\u00a0coefficients, etc. Compaction characteristics, water content – dry unit weight relationships, OMC, max.\u00a0dry\u00a0unit weight, field compaction control, etc.<\/p>\n Suggested text and reference material:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Craig RF., Craig\u2019s Soil Mechanics., 2004, Taylor and Francis, New York, USA.<\/p>\n Das BM., Advanced Soil\u00a0Mechanics.,\u00a02008,\u00a0Taylor and Francis, New York, USA.<\/p>\n Lambe TW.,\u00a0and Whitman RV., Soil Mechanics., 2000, John Wiley and Sons (Asia), Singapore.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IIT Kanpur Syllabus for Civil Engineering CE 351: Soil Mechanics Course content: \u00a0Stresses within a soil, effective stress principle, stress point and stress path, Soil – water systems- capillarity, flow, Darcy\u2019s law, permeability, and tests for its determination, different heads, piping, quicksand condition, seepage, flow nets, Compressibility and consolidation characteristics, Strength and direct and\u00a0triaxial\u00a0shear tests, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":""},"categories":[4927,1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}