
Classify soils as cohesive or noncohesive, and explain how solids, water, and air relate in phase diagrams. Use void ratio, unit weights, and water content with examples.
Explore field tests using a 63.5 kg hammer and a borehole setup to count blows to 30 cm penetration, and review Atterberg limits and bearing capacity concepts.
Compute the effective unit weight of soil using porosity 27% and specific gravity 3.11 by finding gamma saturated and subtracting gamma water.
Compute footing effective stress by subtracting pore water pressure from stress; with 52 kilo scale stress and 2 m water head, sigma effective at point e is 32 kilo scale.
calculate the factor of safety against sliding for a retaining wall by evaluating active and passive earth pressures and the wall weight, yielding a factor of safety of 1.45.
Conclude this module by reviewing a quick example before the exam, and join the private Facebook group for fellow-student clarifications and support.
In this course, you are going to have full preparation for the FE Civil Exam covering the topic of "Geotechnical Engineering"
This course will be your only studying source as it is the most comprehensive available course for the FE Civil exam that will enable you to master the "Geotechnical Engineering" topic for FE Civil Exam by going through the "3" following steps :-
In the first step, you are going to watch the Full explanation videos that explain the physical meaning and the engineering concepts of the geotechnical engineering as per NCEES FE Civil exam requirements
In the second step, you will watch multiple solved examples on each sub-topic for better understanding
In the third and last step, you are going to have multiple practice exams on each topic that cover different ideas for the exam to enable you to better assess your understanding level. and of course, the step by step videos for the solution to all of the exams problems are available to understand any point you might have missed.
All of the problems were carefully chosen from many different resources to resemble the same level of difficulty of the real FE Civil exam
The course covers all of the "Geotechnical Engineering" topic requirements as per latest NCEES requirements released in July - 2020 , including the following chapters
Index properties & soil classifications
Soil phase relations
Laboratory & field tests
Effective stress of soil
Stability of retaining structures
Soil shear strength
Soil bearing capacity
Foundation types [Isolated, strip footing, raft, piles...etc]
Consolidation & differential settlement
Slope stability
Soil stabilization
With this course, you will have access to our private FB group where you can discuss with the instructor and the remaining students any findings or clarifications you might have about this course, and you will be having the instructor's full support till you pass your FE Civil Exam.
Also, this course is not only for engineers interested in attending the FE Civil Exam. This course would perfectly suit any structural/civil engineer who wants to understand all of the basics of Geotechnical Engineering.
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