This course will discuss the composition and structure of soils, Phase relations and index properties, soil classification, soil compaction, principle of effective stress, stresses due to self-weight, stresses due to applied loads, soil permeability, seepage: one- and two-dimensional, flow net, consolidation theory and shear strength of soils.
1. Geotechnical Engineering -General Perspective.
2. Soil formation and mineralogy.
3. Physical and Index Properties of Soils.
4. Soil Compaction.
5. Soil Permeability, Seepage, Capillarity.
6. Stresses in Soils.
7. Consolidation and Swell of Clays.
8. Shear strength of soils.
9. Effective Stress Principle.
