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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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PILE DRIVING INSPECTION MANUAL (2012)
 
<p>Piles are used to transfer loads to a deeper bearing strata, support structures on soil too weak for spread footings and/or protect against scour. Pile driving is unique in the construction industry, in that the machinery used to install the product is ...
Reference: GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING MANUAL GEM-26
SLOPE STABILITY EVALUATIONS BY LIMIT EQUILIBRIUM AND FINITE ELEMENT METHODS APPLIED TO A RAILWAY IN THE MOROCCAN RIF (2012)
<p>Since 1930, the analysis of slope stability is done according to the limit equilibrium approach. Several methods were developed of which certain remain applicable because of their simplicity. However, major disadvantages of these methods are (1) they do ...
Reference: Open Journal of Civil Engineering, 2012, 2, 27-32
SOIL MECHANICS (2012)
<p>This book is the text for the introductory course of Soil Mechanics in the Department of Civil Engineering of the Delft University of Technology, as I have given from 1980 until my retirement in 2002. It contains an introduction into the major principles ...
Reference: A. Verruijt, Soil Mechanics
STRENGTH AND F O S PERFORMANCE OF BLACK COTTON SOIL TREATED WITH CALCIUM CHLORIDE (2012)
Black cotton soil is a typical expansive soil which loses its strength in presence of water résultant in swelling of the soil and in absence of water it shows multiple cracks due to shrinkage. Present paper describes the strength behaviour of Black cotton ...
Reference: IOSR Journal of Mechanical and Civil Engineering (IOSRJMCE) ISSN: 2278-1684 Volume 2, Issue 6 (Sep-Oct 2012), PP 21-25
STRESS DISTRIBUTION AND DEVELOPMENT WITHIN GEOSYNTHETIC-REINFORCED SOIL SLOPES (2012)
<p>Numerical methods combined with centrifuge tests are used to investigate the distribution and development of soil stresses and reinforcement tensile loads in geosynthetic reinforced soil (GRS) structures. In this study, system stability indicated by the ...
Reference: Geosynthetics International, February, Vol. 19, No. 5, 2012
THE EFFECT OF THE STRAIN RATE ON SOFT SOIL BEHAVIOR UNDER CYCLIC LOADING (2012)
<p>In this paper, cyclic triaxial loading tests were conducted on specimens of soft clay with varying cyclic stresses and frequencies to investigate the performance of soft soil subgrade subjected to cyclic loading. The laboratory results indicate that given ...
Reference: ANZ 2012 Conference University of Tasmania, Hobart 5-7 December 2012
THREE-DIMENSIONAL EARTHQUAKE ANALYSIS OF ROLLER-COMPACTED CONCRETE DAMS (2012)
<p>Ground motion effect on a roller-compacted concrete (RCC) dams in the earthquake zone should be taken into account for the most critical conditions. This study presents three-dimensional earthquake response of a RCC dam considering geometrical non-linearity. ...
Reference: Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 2369–2388, 2012
A STUDY ON THE BEHAVIOR OF A GEOSYNTHETIC ENCASED STONE COLUMN GROUP USING 3D NUMERICAL ANALYSES (2011)
This paper introduces the assumptions, procedure and results of a number of three dimensional numerical analyses for simulating the behavior of an encased, versus unencased, stone column group installed in a very soft soil layer; the finite element technique ...
Reference: 2011 Pan-Am CGS Geotechnical Conference, October 2011, Toronto, Canada
ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION FOR LOCATING THE CRITICAL FAILURE SURFACE IN SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS (2011)
Locating the critical slip surface with the minimum factor of safety of a slope is a difficult NP type optimization problem. In recent years, some modern global optimization methods have been developed with success in treating various types of problems, but ...
Reference: World Applied Sciences Journal 13 (7): 1702-1711, 2011
ASSESSMENT OF RELIABILITY AND INHERENT RISK LEVELS OF GEOGRID REINFORCED SOIL STRUCTURES (2011)
<p>Geogrid reinforced soil structures are planned and constructed in increasing amounts due to their various benefits. Little amounts of failures or deformations beyond serviceability limit state are reported. Multiple factors can influence the behavior of ...
Reference: ISGSR 2011 - Vogt, Schuppener, Straub & Bräu (eds) - © 2011 Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau