Soil Mechanics

1.Properties of Soils
  Phase Diagram
  Water Content
  Void Ratio
  Porosity
  Degree of Saturation
  Air Content
  %Void
  Unit Weight
  Specific gravity
  Relaive Density (Id)
  Some important relationShips
  Method of Determination of water content
  Oven Drying Method
  Pycnometer Method
  Calcium carbide Method/Rapid Moister meter method
  Sand Bath method
  Tortion balance moisture Meter method
  Alcohol method
  Determination of specific gravity of soil solids
  Method of determinaton of insitu unit weight
  Core-cutter method
  sand Replacement method
  Water displacement method
  Grain size Distribution
  Consistency of clays: Atterberg limits
  Plasticity index (IP)
  Relative Consistenscy or consistency index (Ic)
  Liquidity index(IL)
  Toughness index (It)
  Shrinkage ratio (SR)
  Stress-Strain curve for different consistency states
 
 2.Soil classification
  Soil Classification
 
 3.Permiability
  Permiability of Soil
  Darcy's Law
  Constant head Permeability Test
  Falling Head Permeability test
  Kozney Karman Equation
  Allen Hazen Equation
  LioudensEquation
  Capillary Permiability test
  Permeabilty of starified soil
  Coefficient of absolute permeability(K0)
 
 4.Well Hydraulics
  Specific yield(Sy)
  Specific retension
  Coefficient of transmissibility
  Unconfined Aquifer
  confined Aquifer
  Sperical flow through well
  Pumping in test
  Open well (Recuperation test)
  Values of Permeability
 
 5.Compressibility and consolidation
  Cofficient of Compressibility(av)
  Cofficient of Compression(CC)
  Over Coolidation ratio
  Differential equation of 1-D Consolidation
  Cofficent of volume Compresiblity
  Comression modulus
  Degree of consolidation
  Time factor
  Method to find Cv
  Compession ratio
  Total Settlement
 
 6.Seepage Analysis
  Seepage Pressure and seepage force
  Effective Stresses
  Quick Sand Condition
  Laplace Equation of two dimensional flow and flow net
  Seepage discharge (q)
  Phreatic line
 
 7.Compaction of soil
  Optimum moisture content
  Comparison of standard & modified Proctor test
  Compection Equipments
  Compection Tests
 
 8.Stress Distribution of soil
  Boussinesq's Theory
  Westergaard's Theory
  Boussinesq's Results
  Westergaard's Results
  Newmark's chart method
  Approximate method
  Equivalent load method
  Trapezoidal method
  Stress Isobar method
 
 9.Shear strength of soil
  Shear strength
  Mohr Columb's Theory
  Direct Shear stress
  Triaxial shear test
  Uncofined Compression test
  Vane Shear test
  Pore Pressure Parameter
 
 10.Retaining wall/Earth Pressure Theories
  Contrasting points of Active and passive pressures
  earth pressure at rest
  Active earth pressure
  Passive earth pressure
  Active earth pressure by Rankline Theory
  Active earth pressure for cohesive Soil
  Passive earth pressure for cohesive Soil
 
 11.Stability analysis of slopes
  Factor of safety w.r.t Shear strength (Fs)
  Factor of safety w.r.t Shear Cohession (Fc)
  Stability of Infinit slopes
  Stability analysis of finite slopes
 
 12.Sheet pile walls
  Sheet Pile Walls Embeded in sands
  sheet pile walls Embeded in clay
 
 13.Shallow foundation and Bearing Capicity
  Bearing capicity
  Gross Pressure Intensity
  Net Pressure Intensity
  Net Ultimate bearing capicity
  Net safe bearing capicity
  Safe bearing capicity
  Method to determine bearing capicity
  Rankines method
  Bells Theory
  Fellinious Method
  Prandtl method
  Terzagi method
  Skempton method
  Meyorhoff's method
  Effect of water table
  Plate load test
  Housels Approach
  Standard Penetration test
  Pecks Equations
  IS Code method
  Meyer-hoffs equation
  Cone Penetration test
 
 14.Deep Foundation
  Bearing capicity of piles
  Under Reamed pile
  Group Action pile
 
 15.Soil Stabilization
  Stabilization of soils
  Defferential free soil test
 
 16.Soil Exploration
  Soil sample and sampler
  Sesmic method