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The focus of Soil Mechanics is the understanding of soil behavior, construction with soils, on and in soils, the use of soils as construction material etc. Soil mechanics is a branch of civil engineering that has witnessed an enormous developement during the twentieth century.All aspects of soil mechanics and soil engineering are included in this section covering a wide range of engineering issues such as soil compaction, soil foundation, soil improvement, soil behavior, soil reinforcement etc. 
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INSTRUMENTATION AND PERFORMANCE OF TIED-BACK SHOTCRETE SHORING IN SAND ADJACENT TO A HOSPITAL STRUCTURE (2017)
<p>Recent additions to the Brantford General Hospital expansion included construction of a new hospital wing, involving excavations of up to 11 metres (36 feet) depth, in loose to compact sand adjacent to an existing eight-storey hospital structure. The tendered ...
Reference: (2004) - Fifth International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
A STUDY ON GROUND IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUES AND ITS APPLICATIONS (2016)
<p>This paper presents a thorough study on various available modern ground improvement techniques and their applications in civil engineering in present scenario. On the basis of long term performance results of various ground improvement techniques and its ...
Reference: International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology (IJIRSET), Vol. 5, Issue 1, Januray 2016
CHARACTERISATION OF A NORWEGIAN QUICK CLAY USING A PIEZOBALL PENETROMETER (2016)
<p>The piezoball, or ball penetrometer with pore pressure measurement, was developed for assessing the geotechnical properties of soft soils, particularly soft seabed sediments where the traditional cone penetrometer can have limitations. The measurement of ...
Reference: Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterisation 5 – Lehane, Acosta-Martínez & Kelly (Eds) © 2016 Australian Geomechanics Society, Sydney, Australia, ISBN 978-0-9946261-2-7
GEO ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF SEDIMENT FLYASH DEPOSIT STABILIZATION BY LIME PILE (2016)
<p>Black cotton soil is considered to be problematic soil as it show major volume changes due to change in its moisture content. This volume change cause wide spread damages to building and roads necessitating stabilization of such soil prior to the construction. ...
Reference: AIJREAS VOLUME 1, ISSUE 10 (2016, OCT) (ISSN-2455-6300) ONLINE ANVESHANA’S INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES
INSTALLATION OF FULLY GROUTED PIEZOMETERS (2016)
<p>In the planning and design phase of the E16 Sandvika &ndash; W&oslash;yen road project in B&aelig;rum Municipality in Norway, NGI installed a large number of piezometers using the "Fully grouted" installation method. Because of layered soil conditions, ...
Reference: NGM 2016 Reykjavik, Proceedings of the 17th Nordic Geotechnical Meeting, Challenges in Nordic Geotechnic 25th – 28th of May
LOAD-DISPLACEMENT BEHAVIOUR OF SKIRTED RAFT FOUNDATIONS ON SAND USING PLAXIS 2D (2016)
<p>Skirted foundations are the shallow foundations in which the footing is reinforced by the addition of vertical plates or skirts. Skirted foundation is one of the new approaches for improving the performance of shallow raft foundation by using skirts to ...
Reference: International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Science (IJAERS) Vol-3, Issue-4 , April 2016
SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS WITH GEO5 SOFTWARE FOR MALIN LANDSLIDE IN PUNE (MAHARASHTRA) (2016)
<p>In recent times the natural hazards in India &amp; all around the world are increasing day by day. Many of the hazards are happening due do man made activities. One such example of man -made hazard is landslide. One such landslide which came under news ...
Reference: Global Journal Of Engineering Science And Researches 2016
ESTIMATION OF SETTLEMENT UNDER SHALLOW FOUNDATION FOR DIFFERENT REGIONS IN IRAQ USING SAFE SOFTWARE (2015)
<p>Foundation design must satisfy limited values of settlement. Settlement is an essential criterion in the design process of shallow foundations. To calculate the settlement under different types of shallow foundations, 79 samples were taken from twenty-three ...
Reference: Engineering, 2015, 7, 379-386
NUMERICAL MODELLING OF RAPID, FLOW-LIKE LANDSLIDES ACROSS 3-D TERRAINS: A TSUNAMI SQUARES APPROACH TO EL PICACHO LANDSLIDE, EL SALVADOR, SEPTEMBER 19, 1982 (2015)
<p>Flow-like landslides are rapidly moving fluid&ndash;solid mixtures that can cause significant destruction along paths that run far from their original sources. Existing models for run out prediction and motion simulation of flow-like landslides have many ...
Reference: Geophys. J. Int. (2015) 201, 1534–1544, GJI Geodynamics and tectonics
NUMERICAL MODELLING OF SOIL IMPROVEMENT USING GEO-FABRICS (2015)
<p>A series of finite element (FE) simulations are carried out to evaluate the benefits of integrating a high modulus geo-fabric as reinforcement into the soil-layers in this paper. Finite element analysis can handle complex geometry, different boundary conditions ...
Reference: Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications, Vol. 5, Issue 10, (Part - 1) October 2015, pp.50-59