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Geotechnical engineering is concerned with the behavior of soil and rock. Soil mechanics focuses specifically on soils and deals with their deformation, strength, and mechanical properties. It applies this knowledge of soil materials to solve engineering problems, particularly regarding the interaction between structures and their foundation material, including conventional structures and those made of soil like dams, embankments, and roads.

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Geotechnical engineering is concerned with the behavior of soil and rock. Soil mechanics focuses specifically on soils and deals with their deformation, strength, and mechanical properties. It applies this knowledge of soil materials to solve engineering problems, particularly regarding the interaction between structures and their foundation material, including conventional structures and those made of soil like dams, embankments, and roads.

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Geotechnical Engineering

UNIT-1- Lecture-1

INTRODUCTION

Geotechnical Engineering is that part of engineering which is concerned with the


behaviour of soil and rock. Soil Mechanics is the part concerned solely with soils.
From an engineering perspective soils generally refer to sedimentary materials that have
not been cemented and have not been subjected to high compressive stresses.

As the name Soil Mechanics implies the subject is concerned with the deformation and
strength of bodies of soil. It deals with the mechanical properties of the soil materials
and with the application of the knowledge of these properties to engineering problems.
In particular it is concerned with the interaction of structures with their foundation
material. This includes both conventional structures and also structures such as earth
dams, embankments and roads which are they made of soil.
SOIL AND SOIL ENGINEERING

* The term Soil has various meanings, depending upon the general field in which it
is being considered.

*To a Pedologist ... Soil is the substance existing on the earth's surface, which
grows and develops plant life.

*To a Geologist ..... Soil is the material in the relative thin surface zone within
which roots occur, and all the rest of the crust is grouped under the term ROCK
irrespective of its hardness.

*To an Engineer .... Soil is the un-aggregated or un-cemented deposits of mineral


and/or organic particles or fragments covering large portion of the earth's crust.

** Soil Mechanics is one of the youngest disciplines of Civil Engineering involving


the study of soil, its behavior and application as an engineering material.

*According to Terzaghi (1948):

"Soil Mechanics is the application of laws of mechanics and hydraulics to


engineering problems dealing with sediments and other unconsolidated
accumulations of solid particles produced by the mechanical and chemical
disintegration of rocks regardless of whether or not they contain an admixture of
organic constituent."

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