Category: 2. Geotechnical Engineering

A civil engineer has many different important encounters with soil. In addition to testing and classifying different types of soil, knowledge of soil mechanics to determine its physical properties is particularly helpful in the following problems in civil engineering: Geotechnical engineers are typically graduates of a four-year civil engineering programme and often hold a masters…

Knowledge of the use of clay stretches back to prehistoric times, when man began building houses for habitation and roads for transportation. In more ancient civilizations, clay was used by man as a building material for the foundations of structures and for the construction itself. Knowledge of soils for foundations, embankments and roads was acquired…

Soil engineering, soil mechanics or geotechnical engineering is one of the youngest disciplines of civil engineering that involves the study of soil, its behavior and as an engineering material. The laws of geotechnical engineering mechanics and hydraulics apply to engineering problems involving sediments and other unstable accumulations of solid particles resulting from the mechanical or…