CIV522

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Completion The course presents an in depth knowledge and understanding of concepts and principles of : soil formation and soil deposition, mineralogical Composition of Soils, Mineral Identification, Soil structure; Clay-Water Electrolyte System, Electrokinetic Phenomena, Groundwater, Permeability and Seepage through soils; Flow through saturated Soils, Effective Stress, pore water pressure, Critical Hydraulic Gradient, Seepage in Two and Three Dimensional Space, Laplace Equation, Flow Nets for isotropic and Anisotropic Soils, Numerical Solution, SEEP/W Program, Stresses, strains and elastic deformation within soil masses, Equilibrium and Compatibility, Stress-Strain principles and Definitions, Volumetric Strain and Bulk Modulus, Shear Stress/Strain, Mohr-Circle Stresses, principal Stresses, Octahedral Stresses, Stresses Induced by Loads, consolidation and settlement of soils, Terzaghi’s one-Dimensional Soil consolidation Theory, primary and secondary Consolidation, Time Rate of Settlem

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