The exhaustive list of topics in Geotechnical Engineering in which we provide Help with Homework Assignment and Help with Project is as follows:
- Soil composition and soil structure:
- Soil formation
- Types of soils and their characteristics
- Particle sizes and shape their impact on engineering properties.
- Soil structure
- Clay mineralogy
- Soil-air-water interaction
- Consistency
- Soil compaction
- Concept of effective stress.
- Permeability and Seepage:
- Permeability
- Seepage force and effective stress during seepage.
- Laplace equations of fluid flow for 1-D, 2-D and 3D seepage
- Flow nets
- Anisotropic and non-homogeneous medium
- Confined and Unconfined seepage.
- Compressibility and Consolidation:
- Stresses in soil from surface loads
- Terzagahi's 1-D consolidation theory
- Application in different boundary conditions
- Ramp loading.
- Determination of Coefficient of consolidation cv
- Normally and Overconsolidated soils
- Compression curves
- Secondary consolidation.
- Radial consolidation
- Settlement of compressible soil layers and Methods for accelerating consolidation settlements.
- Stress-strain relationship and Shear strength of soils:
- Stress state
- Mohr's circle analysis and Pole
- Principal stress space
- Stress paths in p-q space
- Mohr-coulomb failure criteria and its limitations
- Correlation with p-q space.
- Stress-strain behaviour: Isotropic compression and pressure dependency
- Confined compression
- Large stress compression
- Definition of failure
- Interlocking concept and its interpretations
- Drainage conditions.
- Triaxial behaviour
- Stress state and analysis of UC, UU, CU, CD, and other special tests
- Stress paths in triaxial and octahedral plane
- Elastic modulus from triaxial tests.
- Stability of Slopes:Stability analysis of a slope and finding critical slip surface.
- Sudden Draw down condition
- Effective stress and total stress analysis.
- Seismic displacements in marginally stable slopes.
- Reliability based design of slopes
- Methods for enhancing stability of unstable slopes.
- Buried Structures:
- Load on Pipes
- Marston's load theory for rigid and flexible pipes
- Trench and Projection conditions
- Minimum cover
- Pipe floatation and Liquefaction.
- Geotechnical Physical Modeling:
- Physical modeling methods.
- Application of centrifuge modeling and its relevance to geotechnical engineering.
- Centrifuge modeling of geotechnical structures.