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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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GEO-ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF SEDIMENTED FLYASH DEPOSIT STABILIZED BY LIME PILE (2014)
<p>Coal based thermal power plant has created over 50,000 acres of ash ponds in India, with approximately 2500 acres of additional ponds created for a 500-MW power plant and is filled with ash up to 10 m in height within a period of 5 years. Presently, 160 ...
Reference: A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Technology In Civil Engineering (Geotechnical Engineering)
INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS CONE PENETRATION TESTING (CPT) IN ANTARCTIC FIRN: AN INTRODUCTION TO INTERPRETATION (2014)
<p>Commercial cone penetration testing (CPT) equipment was adapted to allow penetrative testing in hard polar firn to depths of 10 m. The apparatus is hydraulically driven, rate-controllable and able to penetrate firn with a resistance of 10 MPa. It can be ...
Reference: Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 60, No. 219, 2014 doi: 10.3189/2014JoG12J214
MEASUREMENT OF RADON EXHALATION RATE, RADIUM ACTIVITY AND ANNUAL EFFECTIVE DOSE FROM BRICKS AND CEMENT SAMPLES COLLECTED FROM DERA ISMAIL KHAN (2014)
<p>Radon concentration, exhalation rate, radium activity and annual effective dose have been measured from baked and unbaked bricks and cement samples commonly used as construction material in the dwellings of Dera Ismail Khan City, Pakistan. CR-39 based NRPB ...
Filed under: Soil Mechanics -  Earthworks
Reference: American Journal of Applied Sciences 11 (2): 240-247, 2014
SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS – LIMIT EQUILIBRIUM OR THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD? (2014)
<p>Since the 1930s, the limit equilibrium (LE) approach has been used to analyse slopes. This approach makes use of a number of differing analysis methods depending on the type of problem (circular vs non-circular) to be solved and the required accuracy of ...
Reference: GROUND ENGINEERING May 2014
SOIL SLOPE STABILITY INVESTIGATION & EVALUATION (2014)
 
<p>This guidance document is intended to be used by VTrans Geotechnical Engineering staff. The secondary audience is the Consultant community who provide geotechnical engineering services to VTrans and whose services are reviewed by the Geotechnical Engineering ...
Reference: VTrans GEI 14 - 01
STABILITY ANALYSIS OF HOMOGENEOUS EARTH SLOPES (2014)
<p>Slope is an exposed ground surface that stands at an angle with the horizontal. Slopes are required in the construction of highway and railway embankments, earth dams, levees, canals etc., and are generally less expensive. Failure of natural slopes and ...
Reference: 201 4 International Conference on Geological and Civil Engineering IPCBEE vol. 62 ( 2014) © (2014 ) IACSIT Press, Singapore
UNDERSTANDING AND OPTIMIZING THE GEOSYNTHETIC-REINFORCED STEEP SLOPES (2014)
<p>Geosynthetic materials are broadly adopted in geotechnical, transportation, environmental, and hydraulic engineering, such as roadway and railway stabilization and reinforcement, pavement solutions, retaining wall stabilization and landscape, embankments ...
Reference: EJGE Vol. 19, 2014
THE DESIGN OF FILTER MATERIALS AND THEIR IMPORTANCE IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING (2013)
<p>The presence of water has a major influence on the design of soil structures as it reduces the effective stresses and hence shear resistance, and applies seepage forces in case of flow. This key topic is well known to every geotechnical engineer and the ...
Filed under: Soil Mechanics -  Earthworks
Reference: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris 2013
APPLICATION OF NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING TO EVALUATE UNKNOWN FOUNDATIONS FOR PENNSYLVANIA BRIDGES (2013)
<p>Unknown bridge foundations present a unique challenge to Departments of Transportation (DOT) across the country since foundation characteristics are a necessary input to assess scour vulnerability and to develop appropriate scour countermeasures. A number ...
Reference: FHWA-PA-2013-003-TEM 002, Final Report 12/14/2012 – 8/13/2013
ASSESSMENT OF SOIL NAILING PERFORMANCE BY USING FINITE ELEMENT AND FINITE DIFFERENCE METHODS (2013)
<p>The field performance of a geotechnical structures including its failure mechanism should be evaluated in detail before construction in order to minimize the possibility of potential failure. In this paper, the application of soil nailing system is documented ...
Reference: EJGE Vol. 18 [2013], Bund. Y