CE363Undergraduate
Soil Mechanics
Printed in the catalogue as SOIL MECHANICS
Course content
Introduction: engineering problems involving soils. Basic characteristics of soils, classification and compaction of soils. Principle of effective stress. Permeability and flow of water (seepage) in soils. Shear strength of soils. Slope stability. Lateral earth pressure theories. Consolidation theory.
Where it sits in a curriculum
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- Civil EngineeringYear 3, Fall semester
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