Subscribe to feed
Lights off 
SEE: Guide to Download NPTEL Video Lecture
Course Description :
Introduction; Origin of soils; Basic Relationships; Properties of Soil Aggregate, Soil Structure; Soil Classification.
Soil Compaction; Laboratory compaction; Factors affecting soil compaction; Field compaction.
Soil-water Statics;
Concept of Effective Stress.
Flow through soils; Quick Sand condition; Permeability and methods for its determination; Flownets.
Stresses in soil from surface loads; Boussinesq theory; Newmark’s chart.
Consolidation of soils; Settlement of compressible soil layers; Sand drains.
Shear strength; Mohr circle of stress; Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion; Estimation of shear strength parameters; Stress paths.
Earth Pressure theories- Retaining walls; Anchored bulkheads.
Stability of slopes; Infinite/Finite Slope Stability Analysis.
Other Resources :
Syllabus | Citation |
The above video lectures are presented by IITBombay, India, under the program NPTEL, there are more than 130+ NPTEL courses Online available.
Other Civil Engineering Courses
- Design Of Steel Structures by IIT Guwahati
- Prestressed Concrete Structures by IIT Madras
- Surveying by IIT Kanpur
- Introduction to Transportation Engineering by IIT Kharagpur
- Foundation Engineering by IIT Roorkee
- ARCH 324 - Architectural Structures II by Open.Michigan
- Stochastic Hydrology by IISc Bangalore
- Fluid Mechanics by IIT Bombay
- Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering by IIT Kharagpur
- Transportation Engineering II by IIT Roorkee
» check out the complete list of Civil Engineering Video lectures
Civil Engineering Lecture Notes