UNIT I      SOIL CLASSIFICATION AND COMPACTION

Formation of soil – Soil description – Particle – Size shape and colour – Composition of gravel, sand, silt, clay particles – Particle behaviour – Soil structure – Phase relationship – Index properties – Significance – BIS classification system – Unified classification system – Compaction of soils – Theory, Laboratory and field tests – Field Compaction methods – Factors influencing compaction of soils.

UNIT II       EFFECTIVE STRESS AND PERMEABILITY

soil – water – Static pressure in water – Effective stress concepts in soils – Capillary phenomena– Permeability interaction – Hydraulic conductivity – Darcy’s law – Determination of Hydraulic Conductivity – Laboratory Determination (Constant head and falling head methods) and field measurement pumping out in unconfined and confined aquifer – Factors influencing permeability of soils – Seepage – Two dimensional flow – Laplace’s equation – Introduction to flow nets – Simple problems. (Sheet pile and weir).

UNIT III     STRESS DISTRIBUTION AND SETTLEMENT

Stress distribution in homogeneous and isotropic medium – Boussinesq theory – (Point land, Line land and udl) Use of New marks influence chart –Components of settlement –– Immediate and consolidation settlement – Terzaghi’s one dimensional consolidation theory – Computation of rate of settlement. – √t and log t methods– e-log p relationship.

UNIT IV     SHEAR STRENGTH

Shear strength of cohesive and cohesion less soils – Mohr-Coulomb failure theory – Measurement of shear strength – Direct shear, Triaxial compression, UCC and Vane shear tests – Pore pressure parameters – Cyclic mobility – Liquefaction

. UNIT V    SLOPE STABILITY

Stability Analysis – Infinite slopes and finite slopes – Total stress analysis for saturated clay – Friction circle method – Use of stability number – Method of slices – Fellenious and Bishop’s method – Slope protection measures.