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Soil Mechanics is a subject of civil engineering. It is also considered a branch of engineering mechanics. 

It also finds its uses in disciplines such as engineering geology, geophysical engineering, coastal engineering, agricultural engineering, hydrology and soil physics.

The app is a free handbook for easy understanding and faster learning of the subject. It covers 213 topics of Soil Mechanics in detail. These 213 topics are divided in 5 units.

All topics are like flashcard which is easy to browse and revise the topics specially at the time of exams and interviews. Some of topics Covered in this application are:

1.	GEOTECHNICAL LESSONS FROM FAILURES

2.	GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND PARTICLE SIZES OF SOILS

3.	BASIC GEOLOGY

4.	Composition of the Earth’s Crust

5.	COMPOSITION OF SOILS

6.	Surface Forces and Adsorbed Water

7.	DETERMINATION OF PARTICLE SIZE OF SOILS

8.	Particle Size of Fine-Grained Soils

9.	COMPARISON OF COARSE-GRAINED AND FINE-GRAINED SOILS

10.	INTRODUCTION OF SOILS INVESTIGATION

11.	PHASES OF A SOILS INVESTIGATION

12.	SOILS EXPLORATION PROGRAM

13.	Soil Identification in the Field

14.	Soil Sampling

15.	Groundwater Conditions

16.	Types of In Situ or Field Tests

17.	PHASE RELATIONSHIPS

18.	PHYSICAL STATES AND INDEX PROPERTIES OF FINE-GRAINED SOILS

19.	DETERMINATION OF THE LIQUID, PLASTIC, AND SHRINKAGE LIMITS

20.	SOIL CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES

21.	Importance of soil compaction

22.	INTERPRETATION OF PROCTOR TEST RESULTS

23.	FIELD COMPACTION

24.	HEAD AND PRESSURE VARIATION IN A FLUID AT REST

25.	DARCY’S LAW

26.	FLOW PARALLEL TO SOIL LAYERS

27.	DETERMINATION OF THE HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY

28.	Falling-Head Test

29.	Pumping Test to Determine the Hydraulic Conductivity

30.	GROUNDWATER LOWERING BY WELLPOINTS

31.	STRESSES AND STRAINS

32.	IDEALIZED STRESS - STRAIN RESPONSE AND YIELDING

33.	PLANE STRAIN AND AXIAL SYMMETRIC CONDITIONS

34.	Axisymmetric Condition

35.	ANISOTROPIC, ELASTIC STATES

36.	Mohr’s Circle for Stress States

37.	Mohr’s Circle for Strain States

38.	The Principle of Effective Stress

39.	Effective Stresses Due to Geostatic Stress Fields

40.	Effects of Capillarity

41.	Effects of Seepage

42.	LATERAL EARTH PRESSURE AT REST

43.	STRESSES IN SOIL FROM SURFACE LOADS

44.	Strip Load

45.	Uniformly Loaded Rectangular Area

46.	Vertical Stress Below Arbitrarily Shaped Areas

47.	STRESS AND STRAIN INVARIANTS

48.	Hooke’s Law Using Stress and Strain Invariants

49.	STRESS PATHS

50.	Plotting Stress Paths Using Two-Dimensional Stress Parameters

51.	BASIC CONCEPTS

52.	Consolidation Under a Constant Load Primary Consolidation

53.	Void Ratio and Settlement Changes Under a Constant Load

54.	Primary Consolidation Parameters

55.	CALCULATION OF PRIMARY CONSOLIDATION SETTLEMENT

56.	Procedure to Calculate Primary Consolidation Settlement

57.	ONE-DIMENSIONAL CONSOLIDATION THEORY

58.	Solution of Governing Consolidation Equation Using Fourier Series

59.	Finite Difference Solution of the Governing Consolidation Equation

60.	SECONDARY COMPRESSION SETTLEMENT

61.	Oedometer Test

62.	Determination of the Coeffi cient of Consolidation

63.	Determination of the Past Maximum Vertical Effective Stress

64.	PRECONSOLIDATION OF SOILS USING WICK DRAINS

65.	TYPICAL RESPONSE OF SOILS TO SHEARING FORCES

66.	PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE FAILURE CRITERIA

67.	Effects of Increasing the Normal Effective Stress

68.	Effects of Soil Tension

69.	Coulomb’s Failure Criterion

70.	Taylor’s Failure Criterion

71.	Mohr - Coulomb Failure Criterion

72.	INTERPRETATION OF THE SHEAR STRENGTH OF SOILS

73.	LABORATORY TESTS TO DETERMINE SHEAR STRENGTH PARAMETERS

74.	Conventional Triaxial Apparatus

75.	Unconfi ned Compression (UC) Test

76.	Consolidated Undrained (CU) Compression Test

77.	POREWATER PRESSURE UNDER AXISYMMETRIC UNDRAINED LOADING

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