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CE6405 Soil Mechanics (SM) Syllabus

UNIT I SOIL CLASSIFICATION AND COMPACTION                                                         

Nature of soil – phase relationships – Soil description and classification for engineering purposes, their significance – Index properties of soils – BIS Classification system – Soil compaction – Theory, comparison of laboratory and field compaction methods – Factors influencing compaction behaviour of soils.

UNIT II SOIL WATER AND WATER FLOW                                                                        

 Soil water – static pressure in water – Effective stress concepts in soils – capillary stress – Permeability measurement in the laboratory and field pumping in pumping out tests – factors influencing permeability of soils – Seepage – introduction to flow nets – Simple problems. (sheet pile and weir).

UNIT III STRESS DISTRIBUTION AND SETTLEMENT                                                       

Stress distribution – soil media – Boussinesq theory – Use of Newmarks influence chart – Components of settlement –– immediate and consolidation settlement – Terzaghi‟s onedimensional consolidation theory – computation of rate of settlement. – √t and log t methods– e-log p relationship – Factors influencing compression behaviour of soils.

UNIT IV  SHEAR STRENGTH                                                                                                  

Shear strength of cohesive and cohesionless soils – Mohr – Coulomb failure theory – Measurement of shear strength, direct shear – Triaxial compression, UCC and Vane shear tests – Pore pressure parameters – cyclic mobility – Liquefaction.

UNIT V SLOPE STABILITY                                                                                                   

Slope failure mechanisms – Types – infinite slopes – finite slopes – Total stress analysis for saturated clay – Fellenius method – Friction circle method – Use of stability number – slope protection measures.

CE6405 Soil Mechanics (SM) Question Papers Collections

• Last 5 Years Anna University Question Papers Collection – DOWNLOAD

• Collection 2 – DOWNLOAD

• Collection 3 – DOWNLOAD

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