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Last tought by Dr. Bader was Semester 092 - 2009/2010

"Geotechnical Engineering & Soil Testing" By Al-Khafaji & Andersland, 1992

Chapter	Title	Section	Title	Week	Homework	Solution	Page
1	Soil Materials	1	Introduction	1	HW#01 HW#02	Solutions prepared by Mr. Homaidy Solution HW02	1
		1.1	Soil Compaction				5
		1.2	Soil Deposits				15
		1.3	Soil Profile				22
		1.4	Soil Engineering Problems				24
2	Soil Exploration	2	Introduction				33
		2.1	Scope of subsurface Exploration				34
		2.2	Exploratory Investigation Using Geophysical Methods				38
		2.3	Exploratory Subsurface Investigation using direct methods				43
		2.4	detailed Subsurface Investigation				47
		2.5	Presentation of Results and Reports				59
3	Index properties of soils	3	Introduction	2,3	HW#03 HW#04 HW#05	Solutions prepared by Mr. Homaidy SHWA SHWB SHWC SHWD	64
		3.1	Water in Soils				65
		3.2	Grain size and shapes				75
		3.3	Soil Aggregate				77
		3.4	Consistency and Sensitivity of clays				86
		3.5	Organic Soils				90
		3.6	Soil Classification				93
		3.7	Typical Values and Use of soil Parameters				106
4	Soil Compaction	4	Introduction	4	HW#06	SHW#06	113
		4.1	Compaction Theory				113
		4.2	Properties of Compacted soils				116
		4.3	Field Compaction and Ground Modification				119
		4.4	In-Place Determination of soil Density				128
5	Water Flow Through Soils	5 5.1 5.1 5.2	Introduction Darcy's Law Permeability Measurement - Laboratory Permeability Measurement - Field	5,6	EXAM 1 HW# 07	Solutions prepared by Mr. Homaidy SHW#07	132 133 136 139
		5.4	Hydraulic Heads in Soils				145
		5.5	Basic Equation, Fluid Flow in soils				152
		5.7	One- Dimensional Flow Net				160
		5.8	Flow Net for Two - Dimensional Flow				164
		5.9	Flow in Anisotropic Soil				168
		5.11	Seepage Force and Critical Gradient				178
6	Stresses within a soil Mass	6.0	Introduction	6,7	HW# 08 HW# 09 EXAM 2	Solutions prepared by Mr. Homaidy SHW#08 SHW#09	187
		6.1	The Effective Stress Concept				188
		6.2	Mohre Circle of Stress				198
		6.3	The Pole Method of Stress Computation				201
		6.4	Stress Due to a Point Load				204
		6.5	Stress Due to an Infinite line load				208
		6.6	Stress Due to an Infinite Strip Load				212
		6.11	Stress Due to a Uniformly Loaded Rectangular Area				221
		6.12	Stress Increment Approximation using Newark's Chart				226
7	Volume Changes in Soils	7.0	Introduction	8,9,10	HW# 10	Solutions prepared by Mr. Homaidy	244
		7.1	Soil Compressibility				245
		7.2	Consolidation and Odometer Test				247
		7.3	Constant State of Strain Consolidation				261
		7.4	Settlement analysis				264
8	Shear Strength of Soils	8.0	Introduction	11,12	HW# 11	Solution Chapter 08	306
		8.1	Soil Deformation Behavior and strength				307
		8.2	Measurement of soil stress strain properties				311
		8.3	Shear Strength of Soil Materials				333
10	Bearing Capacity	10.0	Introduction	13,14	HW# 12	Solution Chapter 10	392
		10.1	Factor of Safety				293
		10.2	Terzaggh's Bearing Capacity Theory for Shallow Foundations				395
		10.3	Effect of Groundwater Table and Eccentricity				401
		10.4	Ultimate Bearing Capacity on Two Layer Cohesive Soils				402
		10.5	Normal Bearing Pressure				405
		10.6	Allowance Settlement versus Allowable Bearing Pressure				405
		10.7	Bearing Capacity of Deep Foundations				401
9	Lateral Earth Pressure	9.0	Introduction	15,If Time Permits	OK Covered		353
		9.1	Earth Pressure at Rest				353
		9.2	Rankine's Earth Pressure Theory				356
		9.3	Couloumb's Earth Pressure Theory				364

Final Exam Schedule

CE 353

Geotechnical Engineering I

7:30 AM

June 17, 2010

Thursday

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