Foundation, Concrete and Earthquake Engineering

Dear reader in our last post we have discussed about dune sand as an Aeolian deposit. Here we will discuss about another wind transported ...

We have discussed wind transported soil in our previous post. We know that sand blown by wind takes shape like dune. When a dune is forme...

In United States, large parts of Africa and India there have severe problems associated with expansive potential of clay soil. The three c...

Soil is very complex in nature and shows distinct behavior other than traditional construction materials. We have discussed about concrete...

We already learned that soil is a weather product of rock that may or may not be transported to another location. We have also learned ab...

In the previous post we have discussed about residual soil derived from hard rock. There mostly physical or mechanical processes are invo...

Soil is very complex and heterogeneous materials usually differs from traditional structural materials like concrete, steel etc.  We have...

Soil is disintegrated or decomposed product of rock formed by weathering action. This disintegration may -mechanical or physical disi...

We discussed about residual soil in our previous post. Here we will discuss about properties of residual soil in relation to parent rock....

Dear reader we have already discussed about precast concrete and wooden sheet piles . Now we will learn about steel sheet pile . The...

In 1925 soil mechanics was established by Dr. K. Terzaghi. This term was coined when he published a book Erdbaumechanik in German which w...

We were discussing about tolerances in concrete construction . In the previous post, we have listed factors that influence tolerances; now...

Dear reader we are discussing this topic according to ACI-117, a commentary on tolerance requirements of both materials and construction f...

Bearing capacity of soil and settlement of foundation depends significantly on the location of ground water level (GWL). We will provide...