
Explore geotechnical engineering basics with Nikhil Agrawal: part 1–5 cover soil identification and classification, part 6–9 cover soil properties, plus notes on slides in resources.
Examine the fundamental properties of soil, including specific gravity and water content, and see how the soil-water relationship and temperature tested at 27 degrees Celsius affect soil density.
Identify and apply basic relationships in soil mechanics, including porosity, degree of saturation, and water content, for numerical analysis and engineering calculations.
Explore how water content controls soil consistency, detailing the liquid limit and plastic limit and how these limits define soil's plastic and liquid states.
Explore soil classification systems—AASHTO, USCS, and Indian IS—and distinguish coarse and fine grained soils by particle size, plasticity, and Atterberg limits.
Analyze soil stresses under homogeneous, below water table, and partially saturated conditions using vertical stress, pore water pressure, and effective stress. Compute total stresses with unit weights gamma and gamma_w.
This lecture explains soil compaction by dynamic loading to reduce volume and expel voids, achieving maximum density at the optimum moisture content, and covers standard and modified proctor tests.
Learn how to determine the fineness modulus of soils through sieve analysis, record mass retained on standard sieves, and compute the index from cumulative mass retained and cumulative percent retained.
Reveals how a landslide occurred due to a bentonite layer under heavy rain and rising groundwater, exposing inadequate testing, misapplied stability assumptions, and a negligent permitting process.
The Complete Course on Geotechnical Engineering is ideally suited for the learners those who are beginning to study soil based on engineering perspective. The course covers the basic fundamental of soil mechanics and advances as per the curriculum of undergraduate students. It covers most of the topics included in the curriculum of most of the universities offering soil mechanics subject in Civil Engineering discipline. It includes the topics on engineering identification and classification of soil based on particle size distribution and consistency limits. It also covers the fundamental knowledge required for the engineering analysis of soil based on permeability, compaction and shear strength.
The various topics are clipped in a video of short duration, so as to be more efficient and engaging. Further, an attempt is being made to the make course more robust by including MCQ’s, practice test and short case studies. The instructor always strive to update course content by including additional topics related to the geotechnical engineering, so as to benefit the learners by offering diverse exposure. The course is also suitable for the working professionals those who are willing to refresh their knowledge on soil mechanics in short time. It is also ideal for the last minute revision of the competitive exam aspirants.