Term Project

Soil Mechanics ll
Fall 2019
BE Civil Section

Hamza Rasheed (CE-16070)

Neha Farooqui (CE-16072)
Shanza Saqib (CE-16078)
Faizan Ahmed Bhatti (CE-16094)
 Discuss question 6
• From these 4 bore logs we cannot conclude
about the soil of whole Karachi, but we can
say that the soil of Karachi is mostly stratified
mainly consisting of sand and silt. Clay was
very rarely present in these bore logs and
mostly present with silt.
 Equations used to find soil properties

• For ϒ:
 Equations used to find soil properties

• For Ф and cohesion:

 Approach used to find settlement
For Approximate settlement:
→Burland method
For Sand.
 Approach used to find settlement
For immediate settlement:
→ Schmertmann method
For Sand
and Fine
Grained
Soil.
 Approach used to find settlement
For primary consolidation
→ δprimary = mv x Ho x ∆σz
Approach used to find Bearing Capacity
Discuss Main Results for Term project 1
and 2.
Thank you

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