Stress Increase in Soils
We have looked at bearing capacity of the soil in…
Angle of Internal Friction
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Example for Lateral Earth Pressure
Now let’s give a simple example to wrap things up.…
Total Stress, Effective Stress, Pore Water Pressure
Before we move on here with soils, let’s talk about…
Stress vs Strain, Elasticity Modulus
After discussing stress and strength, the next important item to…
Mohr’s Circle
In many cases, when performing structural or geotechnical calculations, it…
Slope Stability
Natural slopes tend to slide or fall to their lower side, given long enough time. Depending on the saturation degree of…
Consolidation Settlement
Consolidation settlement is a time dependent settlement that occurs in clay soils, due to applied loads from above. As we wrote…
Elastic Settlement
After finding stresses in soil, we can calculate settlement amount. Settlement of soils in general has three stages: The immediate settlement…
Stress Increase in Soils
We have looked at bearing capacity of the soil in the previous section but checking only that is not enough. We…
Bearing Strength of Soil
So far, under soil strength section, we have explained total and effective stresses, pore pressure, angle of internal friction, shear strength,…
Cohesion of Clay
Cohesion, although thought to have only one meaning by many engineers, actually has two close meanings to each other. One meaning…
Angle of repose
We talked about angle of internal friction of soil, in previous posts of this series. There is also the angle of…
Triaxial Test
A more complicated version of direct shear test which we talked about in the previous post, is called triaxial test, where…
Stress vs Strain, Elasticity Modulus
After discussing stress and strength, the next important item to…
Mohr’s Circle
In many cases, when performing structural or geotechnical calculations, it…
Concept of Stress
Many things in civil engineering are expressed in terms of…
Strength / Mechanics of Materials
In previous section, we dealt with external forces acting on…
Determinate and Indeterminate Structures
One more post and we will finish the statics subject…
Axial Force, Shear Force, Bending Moment Diagrams
So far you have learned very important and fundamental concepts…
Example for solving reactions in statics
Example for solving reactions: Now let’s do a simple example,…
Types of supports
Although we described the concept already, lets summarize here the…
