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Critical Unsupported Height in Cohesive Soils: Understanding the Factor 4 and Why Engineers Are Cautious About Cohesion Note for our non-engineer readers: This article contains a few engineering equations. However, the main concepts can still be understood by reading the text alone, so feel free to skip the math if you wish. One of the most interesting concepts in geotechnical engineering is the critical unsupported […] Read More

To understand what liquefaction is, we must first understand shear stress in soils, which in turn means, the strength of soil… Load carrying capacity of any material arises from its shear strength. Soils, rocks, which carry our structures are no exception to this rule. The greater a foundation material has shear strength, the better it can support our structures with less settlement. Shear strength is […] Read More

In this post we will cover various good practices to follow during subsurface investigation, which forms the basis when preparing geotechnical reports. Read More

It is not possible to describe or even summarize foundation design principles in a single post. So first of all, we refer the readers to other posts we made in Geotechnical engineering and foundations. Below we did not distinguish shallow or deep foundations. We will only list some major points to consider below: Bearing capacity Settlement, such as elastic settlement for all soils and primary […] Read More