Unit Code: CED603

Unit Name: Soil Mechanics

Description: Stability of an infrastructure built on the earth mass depends on the soil strength and compressibility behaviour. It is required to evaluate and understand the various properties of soil mass in order to assess the strength and compressibility behaviour. This course will help you to understand various properties of soil and weight volume relations in order to estimate the relevant geotechnical parameters required for assessment of ground reality conditions. You will learn how to classify the soil, how to estimate settlement and shear strength of soil. Also this course will introduce you the basic concepts of bearing capacity and slope stability analysis. You will be exposed to the geomechanics laboratory practices such as grain size analysis, consistency limits, and permeability, compaction, compressibility, California Bearing Ratio (CBR) and shear characteristics of soils.

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Prerequisite: CED501

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 12

Offered In: Semester 2