Introduction to Soil Mechanics Video Lecture | Soil Mechanics - Civil Engineering (CE)

soil mechanics is the branch of civil
engineering that concerns with the
application of principles of mechanics
and hydraulics to the engineering
problems related to the soil we can also
say that it is the branch of civil
engineering which deals with the study
of characteristics classification and
the behavior of soil under loaded and
unloaded conditions almost all the civil
engineering structures like building
towers bridges etcetera are found on
soil all these structures are very heavy
as they are made up of heavy structural
elements like concrete green earth earth
break wood and steel and all this load
is supported by the soil below the
ultimate foundation soil in its natural
and undisturbed state is very
inhomogeneous or any so topic which
means it is non-uniform and diverse
everywhere it exhibits a wide range of
behavior even when the conditions are
slightly different let's take an example
and say a turbine is installed in a
thermal power station vibrations caused
by the running turbine made under the
state of soil deposit below and around
the foundation from lose to deaths due
to which foundation may settle which is
of course undesirable also the loose and
dance oils have completely different
properties the presence of water table
or moisture content under or in the soil
deposit considerably affects the loading
capacity of the soil how much load a
given soil will be able to support in
its given conditions is what we want to
know as beings and engineers we take out
a small sample of soil from the ground
and derive its physical and mechanical
parameters we should note here that
since the soil is far from homogeneous
state no soil sample guarantee that soil
parameters derived from it are truly
representative of field strata
then how we decide on it well their
final judgment from the civil engineer
comes from the theoretical knowledge
experience and skill