Recent advances in soil mechanics have enhanced our understanding of anchor behaviour and pullout capacity, pivotal factors in ensuring the stability and resilience of both offshore and onshore ...

When Karl von Terzaghi applied the effective stress principle in the soil mechanics theory, the strength and volumetric behavior of saturated soils could be clearly understood and general constitutive ...

The book “Towards a Unified Soil Mechanics Theory (The Use of Effective Stresses in Unsaturated Soils, Third Edition)” develops a unified theory for saturated and unsaturated soils. The main equations ...

A discussion about the importance of instrumentation in geotechnical engineering would be incomplete without referring to ...

When the guys at [Practical Engineering] say they have a dirty car stand, they really mean it! They made a block of dirt and sheets of fiberglass as reinforcement material, and the resistance was put ...

450-1: Shear strength of soils. Theory of consolidation. Problems of rate-independent and rate-dependent settlement. 450-2: Foundation engineering. Bearing capacity of shallow and deep foundations.

Application of testing procedures to the evaluation of soil type and engineering properties. Testing for classification, permeability, consolidation, direct and triaxial shear and field parameters.

AAAS, founded in 1848, has evolved into the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society with nearly 130,000 members and subscribers. The mission, to "advance science, engineering, and ...

THE objections raised 1 to the name 'soil mechanics' are timely and cogent, but the difficulty is too deep-rooted to be disposed of by a mere change of the title of the science. The main trouble would ...