B.Tech. Agricultural Engineering · Semester 4

Soil Mechanics

SWCE4.4 Soil & Water Conservation Engineering

Syllabus lecture plan

1. 01Brief information about syllabus, Introduction to soil mechanics, field 1 and scope of soil mechanics
2. 02Phase diagram, physical and index properties of soil
3. 03Particle size distribution, grain size distribution curve
4. 04Soil indices; plastic limit, liquid limit, shrinkage limit
5. 05Classification of soils
6. 06Effective and neutral stress
7. 07Boussinesq and Wester-guard's analysis; New-mark's influence chart, stress distribution and diagrams
8. 08Shear stress, Mohr's circle, direct shear stress, triaxial test and vane shear test; Mohr coulomb failure theory, effective stress principle, determination of shear parameters by direct shear test, triangle test & vane shear test. Numerical exercise based on various types of tests
9. 10Consolidation of soils, Terzaghi's theory of one dimensional 2 consolidation, spring analogy, Laboratory consolidation test, calculation of void ratio and coefficient of volume change
10. 11Taylor's and Casagrande's method Earth pressure: plastic equilibrium in 16 soils, active and passive states, Rankine's theory of earth pressure, active

Part of the B.Tech. Agricultural Engineering curriculum (ICAR recommendations). Upload or find notes, previous-year papers and quick-revision reels for each lecture on theciae.